Dylan Rose
I seem to be drawn to creative pursuits that can never truly be mastered.
Photography, music and fly fishing keep me curious and the learning never ends. There is always a more honest song, an image that better captures the experience or another lesson waiting on the water.
My career in fly fishing has taken me from Belize, Mexico and Cuba to Christmas Island, Venezuela, the Bahamas, Alaska, Africa, British Columbia, Hawaii, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Chile, Argentina and throughout the American West. After 30 years in fly fishing with half of that at Fly Water Travel, I have been fortunate to experience places and fisheries that once felt impossibly distant.
The longer I spend traveling, however, the more I realize the places and the fish are only part of the story. What stays with me are the humans I spend time with. The guides sharing waters they have known their entire lives. The lodge teams who welcome me as a stranger and send me home feeling like family. The guests who become friends. The beauty of conversation over an unfamiliar and incredible meal. The laughs while running across the water in a skiff. The long drives through unfamiliar country.
Music was my first creative pursuit. I earned my degree from Berklee College of Music, and after dedicating my early musical journey to the saxophone, these I day I pick up a guitar for the same reasons I pick up a camera. To listen more closely, remain curious and keep reaching for something that will always sit just beyond complete understanding.
I’ve learned that adventure often begins when the plans fail. Flights are missed, weather moves in and carefully built itineraries fall apart. Those moments have a way of opening the door to experiences that could never have been planned.
Those connections and unexpected moments have changed the way I approach photography. I want to make images that feel human and honest. Images that preserve the personality of a place, the people who give it life, the fish that blow my mind and the small moments that are easy to miss while an adventure is unfolding.
Rose Eye Media brings these parts of my life together through photography, storytelling, family, adventure and a lasting connection to wild places and the people found within them.