Northwest Dive Club

My underwater photography is going to be featured on King 5, Seattle's NBC Affiliate, on the August 18th (Wednesday) episode of Evening Magazine (7PM, channel 5)! If you have a chance, tune in! And if you don't get Seattle stations, it should be available on the internet the next day...I'll post a link once I have one.

It's interesting - they did a full hour-long interview, but will likely only use a few snippets ("sound bites"?), since the whole "story" on E.M. will only be a few minutes long! It should include some underwater footage of me taking photos from a recent Cayman Islands trip (either Stingray City or me shooting a jawfish), as well as an assortment of my photos from around the world. Hopefully I won't come off as a total dork (I've never been on TV, so I was pretty nervous for the interview!).

The reporter who interviewed me (Michael King) seemed quite intrigued by sharks, and I'm concerned that the whole focus will be sharks, and that they'll try to sensationalize it, rather than using my comments about shark conservation, shark-fin soup, etc. I do know they're going to discuss a current exhibit of my photos at the Clyde Hill Tully's, which includes a 5-foot high print of my "Cheshire Cat Grin" (my avatar at right), which was on display in the Smithsonian last year because it won the Oceans category of Nature's Best Photography's big competition.

Anyway, this is all part of my "15 minutes" - all triggered by taking one lucky shot of a shark that looks like he's grinning! Go figure!

That's how it works ... last year (or was it the year before) I did that radio interview ... and it turned out to really center around GPO's. They want something that most people know at least a little about, to create the interest for a wider audience than just divers.

Yeah, when the editors get ahold of it they will turn an hour's worth of interview into about 5-10 minutes of story ... but in my case they made it a pretty good story. Hope yours turns out as well. Doubt I'll get a chance to watch ... I'm rarely home during those hours, and even more rarely home with the TV on. But I will be interested in hearing reports about how it turned out.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Way cool, Bruce! I will eagerly await your link, being down here in SW Washington.

- Janna

That's very cool. Congratulations! I'll be watching for the link

Nice reward for your work. Congrats!

Congratualtions, I'll set the DVR since we get Seattle TV up here. Can't wait to see it....

Bruce, your 15 minute fame streak is just a beginning , remember, the first one was hanging in Smithsonian, now TV - who knows what will tomorrow bring
There is more in your future! Congratulations !

Hey, those of you online, "my" episode starts in 5 minutes (7PM) on channel 5! Tune in and tell me if you think I look like a total dork!

Ok just got home, where's my link??

Blaiz wrote:Ok just got home, where's my link??

Here's the link!
http://www.king5.com/on-tv/evening-maga ... 33094.html

(Click on the square at bottom right to get full screen. Oh, and they make you watch a commercial first.)

Very nice. Quite flattering, you looked good! I liked your topside pic of grizzly with seagull lol!

I hope you appreciate this, it took me eight minutes to download the video

I'll have to try again but on the uber fast PC, it was taking so long with the laptop that I gave up.

Bruce! That was awesome!! I was very impressed. You handled yourself in a very non-doofusy way. And your story is very interesting too - I especially admire how you've donated the $$ from your photography to a children's charity. That makes it doubly cool. Or Triply cool. Maybe more

- Janna

nwscubamom wrote:Bruce! That was awesome!! I was very impressed. You handled yourself in a very non-doofusy way. And your story is very interesting too - I especially admire how you've donated the $$ from your photography to a children's charity. That makes it doubly cool. Or Triply cool. Maybe more
- Janna

Thanks for the kind words! I was really self-conscious (being my first time on TV), but I think they did a nice job, and I was happy that they mentioned ICSF by name - hopefully that will garner some donations! Of course, they only used a few short "sound bites" out of the hour-long interview (I talked about Nature's Best Photography, the PKD Foundation, and tons of other stuff), but I realize than in a few minutes, most of it had to be left out.

Just for the record, I did NOT suggest "staring down" sharks! I simply said that, with small sharks, often if you just looked straight at them, they will veer away because they seem able to recognize your eyes (I guess they felt a need to spice it up a little!).

SeattleYates wrote:Just for the record, I did NOT suggest "staring down" sharks! I simply said that, with small sharks, often if you just looked straight at them, they will veer away because they seem able to recognize your eyes (I guess they felt a need to spice it up a little!).

SOOOO typical of the media! Apparently diving in locations around the world, and capturing amazing images (one of which is now hanging in the Smithsonian) isn't JUICY ENOUGH for them. HAH!

I'd be happy just to see one of my images in Tully's coffee shop!

Great going, Bruce. I love the story surrounding the grinning shark shot too - taken from the swimstep!

- Janna

That was so awesome.Congratulations! It went great!

Very nice job, again congrats