CPOY 78 Multimedia: Online Storytelling
A website or collection of stories utilizing multiple mediums (still photography, video, audio, etc.). This category is open to work produced in a class or workshop setting with input and supervision by faculty or collaboration with other students, but outside professional help is not allowed.
Finalist: Disappearing Browns
The world is warming and trout are suffering. Beams of light shine through the trees while a light breeze blows across the river. It’s 67 degrees and the river is flowing quickly from the rain the day before. Aaron DeRuyter and Cal Curtice head to an inland trout stream in greater Rochester, to try their luck at fly fishing. The river is one of the very few places believed to be able to sustain wild populations in 50-70 years. The sun glimmers off the creek as Curtice and DeRuyter put on their waders and prepped their fishing rods. Curtice and DeRuyter met in 2013 and have been fly fishing together ever since. DeRuyter was a full-time touring musician and a friend of the two introduced them to each other. Since that day, DeRuyter and Curtice have shared their love of brown trout and preserving the species.
