A photo and video production staple is known as “gaffers tape.” It is an essential for every professional photographer. It is much stronger than “duct tape” (which looks like gaffers tape but can’t handle the heavy-sticking jobs that gaffers tape is known to stick to. When I moved to Boca Raton, Florida in 1994, I discovered that real gaffers tape is hard to find outside of the major photo markets like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami.

As I don’t travel down to Miami very often — I was pleased to to discover that Lowes (and probably Home Depot) is carrying a tape made by Gorilla Glue, my favorite heavy-duty glue manufacturer. Gorilla Tape is just as good as traditional gaffers tape — and I bought my first 12-yard roll for under $5.00…considerably less than traditional gaffers tape.