Joseph E Daniel

Colorado native Joseph Daniel has been involved in the media arts for over 40 years as a photojournalist, filmmaker, producer/director, editor, writer, designer and publisher. He is the founder and owner of the production company Story Arts Media, based in Colorado and northern California. www.storyartsmedia.com Recent productions of note as a filmmaker include the feature documentary Tiny Vineyards - about the sub-culture of home wine making and hobby viticulture in Sonoma, California; the feature documentary Saving Places - about the preservation and restoration of highly threatened, historic structures on remote public lands, like fire towers, ranger cabins, mining complexes; and the feature documentary Of Rails & Sails - about the life and times of Arthur Curtiss James, last of the railroad barons, prominent and intrepid yachtsman, generous philanthropist, avant-garde socialite and secret philanderer, who was one of the ten richest men in America in the 1930s owning one-seventh of all the railroad track in the United States. Daniel also filmed, edited and produced the acclaimed international fly fishing series Wild On The Fly on Outdoor Channel for two years, and was the Director of Photography for the travel/lifestyle/fishing series Hookin' Up with Mariko Izumion on the World Fishing Network. Before becoming a filmmaker he was a freelance still photographer with credits in a wide variety of national and international magazines and newspapers. His production company Story Arts Media has published two national consumer magazines, a trade journal, several corporate publications, and over 35 books.