While on vacation in Port Townsend, Washington in 1997, Bruce happened to attend the annual Wooden Boat Festival, where he sailed on a 72-foot racing sloop, and his life hasn't been the same since!

For someone who grew up in Miami Beach and lived in California, it was certainly odd to become a sailor now that he was in Colorado! First taking classes at the Boulder Reservoir on a Sunfish, then sailing 26-foot MacGregors owned by fellow members of the Salty Dog Sailing Club of Denver, Bruce's passion for sailing increased exponentially.

One day, while perusing one of the national sailing magazines, he spotted an ad for an essay contest, which offered a grand prize of being crew on a transatlantic sailboat race. He won the essay contest, and participated in an adventure that was surely one of the high points of his life, racing a 72-foot racing sloop from Southampton, England to Rowes Wharf in Boston, MA.

Since receiving his Master's degree in video and photography from San Francisco State University in 1989, Bruce has been producing videos professionally. While attending graduate school, Bruce had the good fortune to work full-time for internationally recognized adventure and landscape photographer Galen Rowell. It was during this period that Bruce was introduced to rock climbing and mountaineering, and he began the transition not only from large-format 4 x 5" black and white still photography to 35mm color, but also to the moving image, and the ability to tell a story not only with images, but tied together with the spoken word.

Soon after moving to Boulder, Colorado in 1990, Borowsky began producing a regional television series on rock climbing and mountaineering. The monthly series became so successful that within a year it got picked up by a national network, and aired weekly until 1996. Traveling around the world, Bruce had the opportunity to photograph and videotape people, cultures, and landscapes not only for his television series, but also for his own personal art projects. During it's five-year run, "The Climbing Show" featured a wide variety of well-known climbers, including Lynn Hill, Reinhold Messner, Chris Bonnington, Todd Skinner, Sir Edmund Hillary, and of course, Galen Rowell.

Currently, Bruce works as a producer at People Productions in Boulder. When he's not playing tennis, you can usually find him sailing on Chatfield Lake in Denver on a 22 foot Capri, which he also races every Wednesday evening around the cans.

** Take a look at Bruce's still photography work! **