I had the recent pleasure of joining host Grant Swinbourne of the Landscape Photography World Podcast to talk about a lifetime of landscape photography experience. This talk is mainly centered around the idea of keeping things fresh and staying inspired and I discuss many of the ways I have stayed motivated and challenged over the course of my career.
We talked about my pre-travel preparation, my approach to working in the field, and touch a bit on how to stay positive and productive when a shoot or trip doesn’t turn out the way you want it to.
New Zealand and I go way back: in 1980 I hiked the Routeburn Track in Fiordland National Park and I shot on Kodachrome with an old Canon AE-1. Nearly thirty years later I filmed an episode of Travels to the Edge on the South Island, and last month I taught back to back workshops with a significant upgrade in gear. If you follow me on Insta or Facebook you’ve probably seen Reels of me describing how and what we were photographing, but not showing the payoff pics. Some of you were clearly not pleased about that (I do have to teach a workshop after all). Well, here’s your chance to see them now!
The unseasonably wet weather was challenging and we very nearly got snowed in on the last day, but we were able to photograph the country’s spectacular landscapes and birdlife between the squalls.
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