Ep 56 - How Pete O’Hara channels his rejection from Hollywood to do what he is passionate about the most - adventure photography & videography

Hey Wicked Hunters, Welcome back to The Art of Photography Podcast, Today I want to welcome Peter O'Hara. Pete considers himself “A guy trying to live out adventures I created in my head as a child while flipping through National Geographic Magazines.”

The majority of Pete’s early creative career was spent working in the Canadian television industry, providing the fortunate opportunity at a young age to travel the world while developing my skills as a cinematographer, editor, and photographer.

With these skills, he began working on branded projects with agencies and brands such as Ikea, Buick and Lexus before beginning to focus my expertise on television development collaborating with companies such as Disney, HGTV, Discovery Channel and The Property Brothers.

Pete says,” While these projects allowed for personal and professional growth, after 10 years in the industry, I was ready to take on a new challenge.

Though I always loved my time spent abroad, it wasn't until spending two months travelling to New Zealand that I discovered my love and passion for outdoor adventure photography and filmmaking.

Through this realisation, the course of my career naturally shifted, and I began to invest more time learning how to improve my skills and the art of adventure storytelling.

I am a professional drone operator with advanced drone certification through Transport Canada and aim to enhance these stories by taking to the skies. My goal since beginning this creative venture is to share my passion for exploration and create content that will inspire others to spend more time outdoors and in nature as well as give back along the way.”

Highlights over the past few years are working with Travel Yukon, Tourism Vancouver Island, and Campbell River Whale Watching, JAR of Hope Foundation raising awareness for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

• Everest Vlog Link - https://youtu.be/UXZvlnBkXMU
• Website - https://www.silverfernproductions.ca
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pete_ohara/
• Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@AdventureswithPeteJenna

 

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Pete O'Hara  0:00   I was like eight months trying to get all the contracts, right with everything. So many people were involved, right? There was just it was like, endless. There's production companies there is Disney there is like the talent there was us. And so, you know, I was putting a lot of my time and energy into this, like over a year. And you know, I was editing it on my own time putting the sizzle together, like weeks and weeks and weeks and months. And then we flew back to LA to put it together to finish it at a studio. And it was just like, I remember, we finished it, and I was just like, flew back home and I was just totally burnt out. And then like they called About a month later and said, Yeah, we're not gonna pick this up. So there's just like, it's spent all this money spent like two years of my life trying to put this thing together and then just like they're just like, in a second. They're like, ya know?

Stanley Aryanto - The Wicked Hunt  0:53   Hey, weekend is Welcome back to The Art of Photography podcast, where we share artists journey and adventure behind their photographer, journey. And today, we have someone from the Canadian Rockies, someone who, you know, I've been acquainted with a long, long time, and I've been following his not only amazing photos, and we have a lot of photographers here, but he's also an incredible videographer. And we'll talk about all of that in this podcast. But before we get there, let's welcome Pete. Hey, P. Welcome to the podcast. I'm very excited to have you here

Pete O'Hara  1:32   is Dan, thanks for having me really excited to be here and have a great conversation with you. Yeah, man,

Stanley Aryanto - The Wicked Hunt  1:37   like, you know, like, I think you're only the second photographer slash videographer and I've ever had here. So I'd really love to hear a little bit more about that. But before we can get into, you know