Steve the Videographer
Steve Ambroe is the videographer for The Islander. The Islander is the boat that we are on while we are exploring the Galapagos. The passengers on our boat go on hikes on a different island everyday. Steve always comes with us and videos us with the animals that we see. Since I thought he has an interesting job, I decided to interview him and this is what I found out.
Steve has been interested in taking videos since high school when his dad got a video camera. Steve first started with videotaping sports and moved on to other things. Although he has never videoed underwater, he would like to. The most amazing thing he ever videoed was an orca killing a minke whale, in a location where there aren’t very many orcas. I wish I could have seen that!
Surprisingly, Steve’s favorite thing to video is birds because they are the most challenging. Steve has been to lots of amazing places taking videos for cruise ships, including Brazil, Portugal, the Galapagos, Alaska, the Arctic, and Antarctica. South Georgia Island in Antarctica is his favorite place to video, because of he likes videoing the colorful and loud King Penguins there.
After he has videoed the the week’s wildlife, he sells the DVD’s for $50 to all the guests on the boat. The reason it’s expensive is that it takes a lot of time to edit the video every night (about two hours). We bought three DVD’s so that we can remember our trip to the Galapagos, and we’ll send two of them to other people.
This is what I learned while interviewing Steve and I learned a lot about what it is like to be a videographer on a boat.