New media and video journalism
Visits to the Kremlin, city streets, Metro stations, Moscow State University and an outdoor museum featuring iconic symbols of the former CCCP.
A fun little music video made from behind-the-scenes footage of Robb Montgomery filming scenes in Moscow for the documentary film “Breaking The News.”
Ride along on the Sea to Sky Highway and take a swoosh with me down the glaciers of Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler, British Columbia.
Self-filmed with my trusty Lumix LX-2 digi cam and Zoom H4 recorder.
It is summer holiday season and I am sharing a series of mini travelogues.
Continue reading ‘Vancouver: Sea to Sky to Ski down Blackcomb Mountain’
Travel on Egyptian Railways and enjoy the scenic ride between Cairo and Alexandria.
Features a demo version of Robb’s song “Tumble, Rumble Fumble.”
“Tumble (Reprise)”, is an instrumental variation featuring acoustic guitars.
I am often asked where my favorite places are from my world tours. Hands down, Scotland is my favorite place to visit. She owns a strong spiritual attraction and it is an enchanted land. When my wheels stop turning, this is where you’ll find me.
Scenes of pristine nature across Scotland: The Trossachs, Glencoe, Inverness, Loch Lomond, Mallaig and the Island of Skye.
Continue reading ‘Hiking Scotland: Trossachs, Loch Ness and the Isle of Skye’
Old Cairo: Walk with me as I squirm through the narrow passages of the famous souk at Khan el-Khalili.
In these ancient streets the passages are full of mosques, vendors, deliveries, tourists and shoppers all mixing at the same time. The sounds emerging through all this are of the Friday prayers. I prefer to make my way through the labyrinth during the quiet morning time.
It is summer holiday season and I am sharing a series of mini travelogues to reflect the season.
Gothenburg: A summer tour of the city on graduation day for Swedish High School students and an island cruise from Saltholmen.
It is summer holiday season and I am sharing a series of mini travelogues to reflect the season.
These little side projects were filmed as I travelled to Sweden, Germany, Russia, Egypt, Canada and Scotland producing the documentary film, “Breaking The News.”
An Egyptian dive master briefs SCUBA divers moments before they dive in the coral reefs of the Red Sea.
Shazly, an Egyptian SCUBA dive master gives the briefing before my tour of Ras Mohamed National Park.
The site where two bodies of water meet is an undersea paradise off the Sinai coast.
It is summer holiday season and I am sharing a series of mini travelogues to reflect the season.
This collection of accidental, casual and awkward photos reveal a dimension of 80 days of overseas travel that isn’t normally revealed in a journalist’s storytelling.
I am back in Chicago now organizing thousands of still-frame images and hours of documentary video footage and I kept pausing over the unplanned images that were never part of my “official reporting.” Hmm. I kept being drawn to them and decided to see if they could still be useful.
The multimedia below is made almost entirely from poor quality mobile phone images.
Continue reading ‘Bad photos can tell a story, or at least odd ones can’
Two ways to save hundreds of travel dollars at SND Vegas
Click on this interactive map to see the alternate travel bargains I found in minutes.
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Continue reading ‘SND Vegas travel tips can save you hundreds of dollars’
I was driving to the gym yesterday and out of the corner of my eye I notice the oil change reminder sticker Jiffy Lube put on my windscreen in February. They wrote down the mileage at 67,949 and I quickly looked down at the odometer and read 70,476 on my ‘99 VW Passat. Is this true? I have driven less than 3,000 miles this year?
Back in October I turned the corner into year three as a self-employed journalist and business owner and I have to say getting to ‘the office’ and traveling to meet colleagues, clients and students has seen dramatic shifts in my commuting habits.
Robb Montgomery produces new media workshops to train journalists and media professionals in more than 20 countries in writing for the Web, multimedia reporting, and Web video journalism.
His hands-on seminars include interactive learning techniques, live demonstrations and expertise in teaching new media concepts to professionals.
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