Outdoor Photography Podcast
Join Brenda Petrella from Outdoor Photography School as she sits down with top landscape and nature photographers and leaders in the outdoor industry to unpack their approaches to creativity, connecting with nature, and working safely and comfortably in the natural world. This weekly podcast is a mix of interviews and quick tip episodes. The Tidbit Tuesday episodes include nuggets of practical information and a Q&A section where Brenda answers your submitted questions. Be sure to follow the podcast on your favorite podcast player and get ready to be inspired to create better images and reconnect with nature!
Outdoor Photography Podcast
How To Be a Better Nature Photographer With Alyce Bender
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Brenda Petrella
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Episode 63
Episode 63: Today I sit down with professional nature photographer, Alyce Bender, to chat about:
- Early childhood experiences that led to her passion for photography as a kid
- How certain skills she learned in the military have helped her with leading photography tours and how photography served as a creative outlet from the rigors of duty
- Why she continues to visit Japan for photography after having lived there for two years
- How living a nomadic, RV-based life for about a year helped launch her photography career
- Tips for traveling and doing photography alone
- Her approach to planning photography trips around the world and how she quickly immerses herself in a new landscape
- An interesting story about how a Google algorithm rabbit hole led her to a conservation project about Lesser prairie chickens
- How being a better naturalist will improve your nature and wildlife photography
- How she approaches wildlife compositions and what her “why” is for creating photographs of wildlife
- The story behind her first wild wolf encounter
- And a whole lot more!
LINKS MENTIONED:
Website: http://www.abenderphotography.com/
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Journal of Wildlife Photography
Episode 7: Creating Images With Impact in Conservation Photography with Jaymi Heimbuch
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