File this under ” the apple does not fall far from the tree.”

Earlier in the year I worked with Charlotte Buchen, a graduate of UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism, to develop a KAP segment for Current TV. The early feedback from Current was that they were targeting a “younger demographic” and could we make adjustments along that line? By chance, my son Charlie had tagged along on one of the demonstration outings with Charlotte. They put their heads together and the project morphed into the story of Charlie developing his own rig. Charlie went through a couple of iterations of molding carbon fiber cradle components but then time pressures led to modifying one of my earlier cradles for his camera. It all makes a father proud.

The segment, which lasts about six minutes, is running now on Current TV’s cable channel and also on their WWW site.

http://current.com/items/89113737_in_the_kite_s_eye

Charlie graduated in Mechanical Engineering from UC San Diego about a year ago and has been working in Berkeley since then. It is great fun to have him around. Of late he has been playing around with pole photography and posting on Flickr as BarleyBenton.

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