Nantucket

With Susan Bryant and our pared-down equipment load.

Yesterday's crazy last minute shoot on the island of Nantucket filming two remote interviews for PBS's FRONTLINE. There and back the same day!

There was no way we were going to be able to get my van on the ferry right before the July 4th holiday weekend, so I had to pare down what I would usually bring for such a shoot. I brought the minimum to make pretty pictures, deal with the numerous windows, AND fit it all in the cargo hatch of the passenger ferry.

I accounted it high time I get to sea…

I've been reading Moby Dick this summer. I keep encountering coincidences with it, like this trip to Nantucket where the Pequod sailed from at the beginning of the book. I brought my copy along, even though I knew there would be no time to read it (let alone eat lunch). So, in a way, the Pequod made it home, at least for a visit.

You can see FRONTLINE's updated film, Putin's Crisis, starting July 11th on your local PBS stations, and online.