Dry Dock

Uncle Todd requested photos of the dry dock, and I’m not one to disappoint. Not that I’m that great of a thing photographer, but a big old ship out of water is a cool looking thing. They were working on the props when I took these so that’s why you can’t see any propellers in the back. If I get the chance, I’m going to go out again and shoot the back end with the propellers on.

Only a few days to go and we’ll be out to sea again. I’ve been working like crazy trying to get everything ready, I have no assistant at the moment and I just found out he won’t be joining until five days into the Christmas Cruise. It’s terrible to have to work alone on a ship at all, let alone over a Christmas cruise (they’re the worst.) You have a ship full of people who want the perfect family holiday served to them on a platter, and I don’t care how shiny the silver platter is, nothing is perfect.

Luckily I can stay out of the lime light for the most part. I’ll be busy, but I’m still going to make time to do the international choir, and I’m sure there will be a great dinner Christmas night. I’m going to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Years now because I probably won’t be able to in the middle of the holidays. Have a good time, eat, drink and be merry and I’ll talk to you again in the new year.

Katie

About This Blog

I call myself a filmmaker first, a director if you want to get specific. But that's not the only thing I do. Actually I do other work to pay for my filmmaking habit. Someday I'm confident that I will be paid to make movies, that day just hasn't arrived yet. So in the meantime I work as a photographer and Broadcast Tech on cruise ships (person in charge of all the programming that goes out to the TVs on board: satellites, computerized programming, tape decks, etc.) I'm in the process of fulfilling one of my other ambitions in life, to be a world traveler. I work on cruise ships sailing the globe for half the year and the other half I spend on land working as a photographer and making independent films.

Some of this blog will be about travel and ship life, some about making movies and working on independent films, and some about photography, commercial work, weddings and more. Please feel free to make comments and ask questions, but know that if I'm on a ship I have to pay for my internet access by the minute and I might not get back to all the questions asked until I'm back on land.

Disclaimer: This is part of a bigger email list where more pictures are attached. In this blog I can only attach a couple pictures per post so I might sometimes make references to pictures that aren't attached here. I'm a hopeless optimist. I'm one of those people who can't see problems coming because I'm just blind to most bad things. I tend to present an idealistic version of reality. I make ship life and film work look fun and easy…it's not always that way.