Footsteps

    This is a film I made to explore the idea of the footsteps we leave behind or follow in ......   

Trout Heart

    "For as a man thinks in his heart so is he"

At the Light

  This is a short film about daydreams while you wait at a traffic light.... what dreams we dream...... 

Sun Spots

      This is a short film  combining digital animation with video ....   a rise form , the shape of fish and the  color of light.....  These are all things I am unable to fully comprehend ...

    

My latest painting

" Stripping Line"  is my latest painting... I wanted to paint the feel of a misty rain.... One of my top five fishing days of all time was on the Kennebec River in Maine during a  blizzard caddis hatch,  with landlocked salmon going nuts on dry flys and a misty rain coming down. I waded out to a rock where I could reach the current seam with a long cast... The fly never drifted for long before a fish would  rise and eat it.... the hatch lasted about an hour... an hour that has remained sure and steady ever since.... 

    I have other memories of fishing in the mist ,  sometimes alone or often with friends...  they are all so fine..... 

Short Film ... " I Became the Words"

     

  

 This is my  Short Film  " I Became the Words. "   This past December it won an award in the first  Winston  Fly Fishing Film Festival.   

 I'm trying to understand  the connections between me and the ones I love... some are gone now, but their memory lingers on in the sounds and mist of the stream. You can view more fly fishing films and paintings on my website  rodcrossman.com

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