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https://paradiseperformingartscenter.com/ytv37l8 That’s a familiar-looking porch gracing the covers of Fly Fisherman magazine.  I’ve eaten a lot of lunches and conducted quite a few phone interviews for articles on that bench (the magic cell phone booster inside the shop reaches on the porch, providing cell service in a town without any.)

https://dcinematools.com/g244scmlf Good memories.  As always, thanks https://onlineconferenceformusictherapy.com/2025/02/22/6t1qm6k8xc  to the Fly Fisherman magazine crew, and to Mike Hodge for a great article.  And a huge thanks to the Headhunters crew for a memorable summer!

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Creative Itch

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The little, out of the way places around the world we  meet and talk. Sami reindeer herder's hut, Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

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https://lpgventures.com/7g7arlvebiw It’s been an enlightening week. Not sure if it’s due to the fact I’ve recently picked up my yoga practice once again, the seasons are oh-so-slowly beginning to change (the Vernal Equinox finally comes tomorrow; it’s snowing today) or that I’m contemplating an upcoming trip back to my home country of Montana in ten days (and packing more camera gear than clothing.) There’s something in the air, something edgy and itchy and begging for an out-of-the-box approach.

go site One of the things I am most thankful to the world of photojournalism for is the people it has brought into my life. Friends and comrades who I would trust with my life; some of whom have helped me out in tight spots, and I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to do the same for them. Relationships progress so much further under pressing circumstances, and after a long day in the field we hash out topics I would never broach with someone who didn’t “get it.”  And, at the end of the day, that’s an extremely select group.

https://www.marineetstamp.com/9eqoabqx8u They’re outside the box thinkers – many of them live their lives outside the lines – and they aren’t hampered by small thinking. You’ve heard the old adage about small minds discussing people, average minds discussing events and great minds, ideas? While I’m by no means any great mind, I’ve been lucky enough to meet with and work with a few who are, and I can tell you Eleanor Roosevelt was right on the money.

https://www.mbtn.net/?p=gnn4qey A lot of those late night talks (I remember a notable one in a US Army barracks, another in a Murmansk bar) move from logistics and travel chatter to conceptual, serious discussion rather quickly.  Talk about ideas, objectives, thoughts.  And there’s an overall, pressing theme: how can we do it better?  How can we press the limits?  How can we break down barriers?

https://www.elevators.com/fzws1gen And no matter how many writing jobs pile onto my plate at Orvis, or how many freelance grants and fellowships come onto my radar, each requiring days of work, or how many nights I lay awake thinking I really should be pitching new stories instead of sleeping, the question is always there.  What else can I be doing to grow my business?  What stories should I be chasing?  Where is my next photo essay coming from; where do I need to hunt for it?  What, what, what, how, how, how?

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enter site It’s like an itch that can’t be scratched, a scar that never quite fades.  I’d like to think all creatives deal with some version of this; I know a few who do.  And, at the end of an assignment, it’s all we can do to grin quietly at each other, sip a glass of wine (in person or over Skype) and know that maybe, for a brief moment, that itch has been scratched.

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Jake Gates chasing carp on Holter Lake, Montana.

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It’s been a week since the last post – apologies.  I have no excuse, save that I’ve been wrapping up this quarter’s billing and bookkeeping (lovely, as always) and been fighting a stubborn cold.  Caffeine only does so much to help you power through, and I came home after yesterday’s yoga class, unceremoniously collapsed on the couch and promptly fell asleep watching Ondine.  Work didn’t get done.

But, on the bright side, if work hasn’t been posted on the blog, it’s been making the rounds on the magazine circuit.  Read through the latest issue of Fly Fisherman and you’ll see a shot of Headhunters Fly Shop’s famed porch, right in the middle of Fourth of July partying.  Another Missouri image – a scenic this time – made its way into The Fly Fish Journal.  

Always fun to see work in print – no matter how small or large it is – and I’m excited about several projects in the woodwork.  Come April things are going to be hard and fast, and I’m taking advantage of a few weeks of relative down time to get the gear in shape and prep for new adventures.

In the meantime, though, I can dream about hot summer days fishing for carp in Montana…

And smile about the awesome people in this world, as evidenced by Scumliner Media and Headhunter’s latest winter project.

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New Vermont Chronicles on Chi Wulff

by Fire Girl Jess on March 2, 2014

Casting practice.

Casting practice.

No, I haven’t fallen prey to the chill of the northeast (though I’m writing while wearing a down jacket in my apartment.) The Subaru hasn’t exploded (yet.) And I haven’t shipped off to the Ukraine to cover the political transition / invasion (tempting… very tempting.)

Still here.  And kicking.

It was a killer week at Orvis HQ, solid week on the Fire Girl home front, and I spent an hour yesterday afternoon standing in a snowy baseball field practicing my casting (double haul ahoy.)

Picked up an Orvis Gale Force sling pack to – after some modification – serve as a new on-the-water camera bag.  After playing with it, I’m excited and even more stoked for more adventures in the field.  Spring can’t come soon enough.

In the meantime, as it’s snowy and chilly and windy outside, I hunker down and write.

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Craig, Montana, last spring.  Big times in the big town.

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