Onboard STP65 "VANQUISH" during 2010 Block Island Race
Well, there has been a lot happening and, well, there has been absolutely nothing happening. ‘Tis a weird time here at Amory Ross Images. I have been doing my absolute best to learn video and the intricacies of Final Cut Pro while really trying to stay afloat; it has been a difficult combination. Am I a photographer? Am I videographer? Am I both? I am trying to best prepare myself for the job going forward and that probably includes both.
I’ve alluded to it before but my only goal right now is to do the Volvo Ocean Race as onboard media crewmember and if my time isn’t spent getting closer to that then I don’t think it worth it. It’s been difficult in a lot of ways but perhaps mostly so in the cold reality that sailing is not quite ready to embrace the modern age, and it’s something I truly cannot understand.
Here we find ourselves, in 2010, and it is beyond me as to how we can sit here and say “sailing is boring, sailing is lame, nobody watches it, nobody cares, we are doing a horrible job marketing it, nobody does anything to promote it,” yet we time and time again refuse to change that. It seems to be a lot of people “talking.” Who, other than Sailing Anarchy, is doing anything about it? While I am wholly against their model of making money without paying for their content, they are in fact out there doing what nobody else is even trying and it’s awesome to see.
Perhaps my enthusiasm for the sport is misguided, perhaps I am over-joyous at the notion that I might be able to have a hand in the sports’ artistic return to grace. I don’t know. All I know is I think I have some seriously awesome ideas and the capabilities to pull them off but I have no way of using them because nobody is willing to give me the opportunity.
At some point this has to change. By virtue of mandatory placement the Volvo Ocean Race has made serious strides. The Louis Vuitton World Series has onboard cameramen too, bravo. The MedCup and RC44 classes allow for a “guest;” that’s progress. We still have a long way to go though and whether I’ll be around when we get there–as an American–I just don’t know. I sure hope so!
I recently spent an afternoon with friend and Hobart sailing alum Andy Horton and crew James Lyne on Lake Champlain, Vermont. It was my very first crack at video and I learned an unbelievable amount. Enjoy!
I feel your pain, amigo.
This is awesome video for a first attempt, BTW.
amo, really??! this is your only post in the last like 5 months? get with the program. are you sailing somewhere right now or what?
you are totally missing out on good times in jackson. it’s been raining and overcast for about a month straight.
see ya
Its a tough business but you’ve clearly got the eye and the vision. Stick with it; maybe you’re the one to usher in the future?
Just came across your site. Unbelievable work!
And this was your first attempt at video? Insane. Looking forward to following your work here on out.