Oconee County man, good friend create new Georgia Public Broadcasting present
Chris Greer remembers a lot of months in the past when he arrived at his cabin simply after mountaineering on a bitter chilly January working day alongside an arduous stretch of the Appalachian Path.
He began out a fire, poured a glass of bourbon and turned on the Tv set, then sat once more to let his general physique unwind.
“Georgia Exterior,” a sequence on Ga Group Broadcasting, was airing.
“I’ve seen it for a few years,” he recalled.
Greer and a good friend, Jason Clemmons, a fellow photographer, skilled been producing scenic outside video clips for his or her YouTube channel and as Greer watched the GPB current, an thought arrived to him that possibly the 2 of them may produce their private mom nature show with a definite technique that featured two photographers discovering expertise within the state’s giant landscapes.
That notion spawned on a cold day inside a warmth cabin has flip right into a fact.
On April 23, GPB will debut “View Finders,” a 30-minute clearly present that finds Greer, a resident of Watkinsville, and Clemmons, a Blairsville resident, trying out spots within the state that may make scenic weekend journeys.
The reveal airs at 9 a.m. that Saturday and in Could may be discovered at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays.
The initially 12 months has 5 episodes utilizing the viewer to Cumberland Island, Blood Mountain, the Okefenokee Swamp and the 430-mile-very lengthy Chattahoochee River.
Greer, a professor at Ga School or college in Milledgeville, is an avid photographer. In 2020, he produced a e e-book of his footage that was printed as a journey guidebook to outside places in Ga.
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When Greer 1st pitched the considered filming a nature present to GPB, he claimed the vice chairman of programs felt it was a recent and intriguing angle for these sorts of a reveal.
Functioning with Clemmons was pure owing to their friendship and comparable passions for pictures.
“We each equally are photographers and I get pleasure from to {photograph} within the mountains. He owns Daybreak Grocery Store within the neighborhood of Vogel Situation Park and that’s shut to wherever my cabin is,” Greer talked about.
The 2 achieved simply after Clemmons seen pictures that Greer skilled posted on social media, and was fascinated for the reason that images got here from areas Clemmons additionally frequented within the mountains.
Greer answered an invite to stop by the retail retailer. They talked retailer about pictures and a bond was based. That was about 5 a very long time again, and on condition that then they’ve absent on image hunts, made YouTube movies and taught picture workshops collectively.
“View Finders” is unscripted — in contrast with quite a lot of fact demonstrates the place producers normally script narratives and generate circumstances for contributors.
“It was simply the 2 of us more often than not. We’d go to those spots and have positively no idea what we had been going to search out. The incredible, the undesirable, the disagreeable — we filmed all of it,” he acknowledged.
“A genuinely superb a part of the current that I’ve been making an attempt to clarify to folks right now about is that virtually the entire songs is from Ga musicians,” Greer mentioned.
Within the enhancing technique, Greer reported he required tunes to assist push the narrative and convey emotions to the viewers.
“I set out a contact on social media to pay money for artists that could possibly be fascinated and I acquired a considerable response,” he acknowledged.
Greer picked songs from 15 Ga musicians from an enormous vary of sorts that current background because the viewers views the wandering approaches of those two photographers.
