The Circus Wagon Archive • Jake's Travel Films

Wind, water, and moving light.

Capturing the coastlines and open waters that still photographs can't quite hold.

When Colby and I sail into a remote anchorage or wake up on a mist-covered ridge, still photos tell one half of the story. The rest lives in the current shifting under the keel, the palm canopies bending in trade winds, and the sudden scale of a boat against miles of open blue.

Jake shoots these short travel films and aerial passes with a light kit and minimal gear—letting the sound of salt water and raw terrain dictate each cut rather than commercial pacing.

Perspective

Low coastal sweeps and high ocean vantage points over reefs and anchorages.

Element

Tracking swell patterns, changing tidal lines, and offshore wind.

Pacing

Uncut natural movements that preserve the actual pace of travel.

Motion & Field Records

Travel footage from our voyages.

Short documentary dispatches, drone flights, and raw sailing logs filmed by Jake during our travels.

Sailboat tacking through deep turquoise waters near Paros, Greece
Aegean Sea, Greece14:20

Sailing through the Greek Cyclades

Anchorages between Delos and Paros under strong summer meltemi winds.

Aerial drone perspective of Pacific surf lines washing onto Costa Rican shorelines
Guanacaste, Costa Rica09:45

Flying over Costa Rican coastal surf breaks

Early morning offshore breezes and remote reef breaks along the Nicoya Peninsula.

Wooden bow cutting through open ocean swells at sunrise
Windward Islands, Caribbean18:05

Island crossings under sail

Open-ocean squalls, night watches, and dropping anchor at dawn in quiet coves.

Emerald green dramatic ridgelines of Kauai shrouded in misty low clouds
Kauai, Hawaii11:32

Hidden Hawaiian valley ridgelines

Cloud-covered volcanic knife-edges and waterfall drops across the wet northern valleys.

Captured on 10-bit cinema profiles and drone sweeps. Archival audio recorded on site.

Films curated by Jake