08-08-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Chasing Tornadoes and Supercells on Their First Date
Thomas Patrick Joyce III and Brittany Elizabeth Mumma don't shy from adventure. They run toward it — often off the grid — with cameras in hand.
'The adventure filmmaking world is quite small,' said Mr. Joyce, the managing director and a founder of Triage Creative, a film-production company in Boulder, Colo. He also offers fine art photography through his online print store.
In early March 2023, Mr. Joyce was shooting ski footage in Jackson Hole, Wyo., where Ms. Mumma lived at the time. Mutual friends had mentioned that she was newly single. Eager to meet her, he reached out via Instagram, but she was heliskiing, dropped off on remote Alaskan slopes by helicopter.
'Ah, of course,' Mr. Joyce recalled thinking.
Later that March, Mr. Joyce, who had directed 'Dhaulagiri,' an award-winning 2022 expedition film in the Himalayas, invited her to join his team's storm-chasing project through several states starting in May.
'I was very honored and excited,' said Ms. Mumma, 36, a photographer and cinematographer who specializes in adventure, documentary and commercial storytelling. 'We had a mutual connection to the craft.'
'I was excited to meet her in person,' said Mr. Joyce, 35, who graduated magna cum laude from the University of Denver with a bachelor's degree in economics. 'Obviously she's very attractive.'
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