Tribune correspondent
Published: September 29, 2010
BRANDON - If you run into John Barlow, chances are you're going to see a video camera slung over his shoulder.
News, documentaries, events: You name it, it is a safe bet there is some footage somewhere bearing Barlow's signature.
Over a 20-year news career that included time in the nation's capital, Barlow filmed everything from car wrecks to a reception for Mother Teresa.
Today the Brandon resident shoots depositions and medical examinations.
"I'm a contractor," he said, "but do most of my work through Sunray Legal Video (Tampa). I started out with a couple of jobs a week and now I'm busy every day. Videography saves everyone time and money.
"I like the freedom," he said. "It gives me time to hang with my boys."
In addition to the family-friendly hours, Barlow's work can be fascinating.
"You learn a lot about the medical field, and a lot about the law. Then some of the people you meet are real characters. You see all kinds."
He was born and raised in Reading, Mich., and moved to Florida when he was 16. he graduated from Barron Collier High School in Naples in 1982 and trained in electronics before being hired as an audio technician at the Naples ABC station, WEVU.
"It was a small shop, so I got to learn everything," he said. "I'd always been fascinated by the technology of creativity. I learned how to edit, how to work the camera, taking bits and pieces and creating a story."
After four years he was recruited to join ABC's start-up affiliate in West Palm Beach.
"Brand new cameras, new trucks, new everything and a whole lot of energy," he said.
Before long the young cameraman was invited to work with Mobile Video, a production company based in Washington.
"We did international stories," he said. "Filming for German, Russian, Israeli and French news stations. I worked everywhere, including the White House, Capitol Hill and the Pentagon.
The company also had a contract with the Naval Academy.
"I traveled with the football team and was able to shoot the Army-Navy game at Veterans Stadium. It was a great learning experience," he said.
Memorable episodes include telling a joke that cracked up President George H. W. Bush, folding chairs with Secretary of State James Baker after a Blair House event, interviewing author Tom Clancy at home and - most poignantly - filming a reception in honor of Mother Teresa.
"Looking back I knew it was important," Barlow said. "But from my perspective now I wish I could have taken more of it in. when Mother Teresa came into the room it was special. It was different."
In Washington, Barlow met his future wife, Margaret Barlow. They married in 1993 and moved to Fort Myers, where he worked for WBBH before landing a job with CBS, Channel 10 in Tampa, where he worked 10 years.
While he was at the Tampa station, he won the National News Press Photographers Association's Humanitarian Award in 1999 for giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation to a 5-year-old he pulled out of a swimming pool while on an assignment.
Barlow said the Brandon area has been a great place to raise two sons. It is Robbie, 15, and Alex, 13, who make him optimistic about the future.
"Watching our kids, thinking about where they're going to be; it's going to be cool to watch them grow into young men."
Correspondent Derek Maul can be reached at derek maul@gmail.com.
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good one ruby...btw zoe my friend did the whole videoing santa thing - he magically turned the video camera off before entering the room and turned it back on once all th presents were safely under the tree because he is magic and you are not allowed to see him or he will take them away! i asked mum to do it the year after but she conveniently forgot to bring the school video camera home from work.
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You forget to factor HAARP into your damnation equation.
A few men sat at their roundtable years ago and planned it all, give you a book and call it prophecy!
What happen to the meek inheriting the earth, when they will be no earth for them or is that another untrue in that Bible?
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This issue doesn't affect programs on ABC that are simulcasted on Canadian shows. Just those shows which are only on the ABC station, like Cougartown, Extreme Makeover, Modern Family, etc. I would have died if Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice were affected this way!
I had been in touch with the ABC station who says this would be an EASTLINK issue - haven't heard a peep from them about fixing it other than some random email that they were waiting for a part that should be in place within a week (this was last summer/fall).
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