Monday, June 26, 2006

Sailing and Fishing on the Alabama

It's taken a lot of work to produce a website with lots of content but www.laptewproductions.com is up and running as of today.

Hopefully viewers will not only gain a better insight into the world of Laptew Productions, but they'll also enjoy the articles, free wallpaper and video downloads.

It's still a work in progress and many more photos and articles will be added over the next few days.

The weather here in the Northeast has been wet and dreary, fortunately I enjoyed one of the last great days of weather while on a shoot off Martha's Vineyard Island in Massachusetts. I was with the crew from "On The Water" magazine shooting the underwater side of an episode for their TV show "Fishing New England."

We sailed accross Vineyard Sound on the 90' gaff rigged schooner "Alabama" which is owned and operated by The Black Dog in Vineyard Haven.




Once we reached the Elizabeth Islands we dropped anchor and Chris Megan and Neil Larrson proceeded to fish out of one of the Alabama's dorys.

They wanted to show what it was like to fish in the days before center console boats with 300 horse power engines and electric trolling motors.


It wasn't long before they started hauling scup (porgys) over the side whileI was under the boat trying to capture the moment.



Once they finally caught some legal size fish they commenced to live line them for bass and bluefish. It's going to be a wonderful show to watch; the weather was fantastic and the scenery was absoluely gorgeous.

It was a long day, actually the longest day of the year and the first day of summer, especially after spending a couple of hours in the water the evening before. I did manage to get enough interesting shots of striped bass under the docks in a small harbor to create a photo essay that is posted on my site at http://www.laptewproductions.com/photo_essay.htm

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