Fly Fishing Pharmaceuticals

I laugh on a pretty regular basis about the nature of my work. I always joke that on any given day, I’ll be knee-deep in cow shit on a farm in the morning, wearing a hard hat on a construction site in the mid-afternoon, cleaned up and doing headshots before the work day’s end in an office downtown, then in some venue with an incredible band laying it down in the evening. All with a couple cameras around my neck. These black boxes with some glass in front have been my passport to see the world, learn so damn much about more things than I could ever imagine, and get access to places and people I didn’t even know was possible.

After a few different people close to me recommend I check out fly fishing cause they think I would like it, I began to learn a bit about it online. I even went to Stowe to take a casting class in September, and while this doesn’t seem to me to be the right time to invest in some gear, I did have a bit of interest and curiosity in photographing it.

Fast forward a couple weeks and I get an email through a referral inviting me to come down and photograph New Amsterdam Pharma’s retreat in Woodstock. I head down, and after a few group photos with the whole team, I set out with a smaller group and three fishing guides to a spot on the river somewhere in the mountains of southern Vermont.

The resulting few hours on the river were peaceful among the sound of the river flowing and the wind in the trees.