Introducing myself... Gary Yost is now on Steemit!

Greeting Steemians! I come in peace... and to share my knowledge with all the creative folks in this new community.

I have a long history of inventing tools for animators and also making films and photographs. My wife, daughter and I live at the foot of beautiful Mt. Tamalpais on the San Francisco Bay and I've been using technology to tell complex stories for a long time. My biggest claim to fame? Leading the team that created Autodesk 3ds Max... the most popular 3D animation tool of all time. When I sold the Yost Group to Autodesk in 1997 I jumped headfirst into pursing my original love... photography and filmmaking. Now I spend all of my time exploring the mysteries of my world with my cameras, and revealing what I find in my images and films.

If you'd like to read more about me, it's all in the wikipedia entry here. I'm looking forward to sharing my little piece of this incredible world with y'all!

Me (photo from Wikipedia), teaching a photography class in 2014.

Here are some sample images from galleries I'll sharing with you in the future.

I spent three weeks living next to a nesting Anna's Hummingbird and watched her go through the entire cycle, from laying her tiny eggs to forcing the fledgling birds out of the nest on the 21st day. The whole process is so incredible, and so intimate...
and I documented the entire thing.

I've made some very cool music videos.... from this one of the Yassou band, featuring Lilie Bytheway-Hoy to Puddles, the 7'-tall clown (and that one has had over 1.3 million views on
Youtube.)

I've taught landscape photography, time-lapse filmmaking, and aerial filmmaking for years. This image is from Bowling Ball Beach on the Mendocino coast. I'll share the right time to get there so you can see these stones revealed.

Images from China, films from Fiji, and much more are coming... stay tuned!