Sanity Saver: Shelter from the Storm

Traditionally the Sanity Savers were produced from unused footage and calming soundtracks featuring independent music artists. This past summer a fellow photographer David Taylor and I found ourselves pinned down in a tent high up in the mountains during a lightning storm. It’s seriously an unnerving situation. The questions and strategies rolled out like – Do we descend down the mountain in heavy downpour on very wet terrain, risk falling or being struck? Do we stay put in a tent surrounded by aluminum rods? Eventually we opted for the later, hoping the air mattresses we were sitting on would isolate us from being grounded. Crazy as that sounds, I don’t think there was a real win situation.

Sitting there in the tent I decided to save my sanity and film the experience, which I think now actually feels more calm than we felt at the time.