Beyond The Lens with Richard Bernabe

56. Dr. Tom Smith: How Not To Get Mauled By a Bear, Defensive Strategies, Safety, and Peaceful Coexistence Feb 22, 2024

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Dr. Tom Smith is a professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where he studies human-wildlife conflicts, particularly involving all three species of North American bears and mountain sheep. He also worked with the United States government in southwestern Alaska where he served from 1992-2006 as a research biologist for the National Park Service and USGS.
Topics Richard and Dr. Smith discuss:
• Precautions before entering bear country.
• Bear Spray versus a gun
• Grizzlies and brown bears
• Black bears
• Polar bears
• A fed bear is a dead bear
• How to avoid a bear attack
• What to do if you're being mauled
• Why you should never take a dog into bear country
• Timothy Treadwell and Alaska
• The importance of a peaceful coexistence with bears
And much more.
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55. Mike Olbinski: Storm Chasing Photographer and Cinematographer on Tornado Encounters, Haboobs, Supercells, and Risk Taking Feb 07, 2024

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Mike Olbinski is a Phoenix, Arizona-based storm chasing and extreme weather photographer and cinematographer. His passion is capturing extreme weather events like tornados, haboobs, supercells, and lightning events on camera and stunning cinematic time lapse videos.
Topics Richard and Mike discuss:

A Texas tornado that was one of Mike's 2023 highlights
What is an haboob and how are they created?
Mike's career-altering haboob
Supercells and mesocyclones
Storm chasing and risk taking
The dangers of wet roads
Do storm chasers root for storms?
Weather apps for storm chasers
Time lapse videos
Not your typical storm-chasing wedding photographer

And much more.

Notable Links:
Mike Olbinski Website
Mike Olbinski Instagram
Mike Olbinski You Tube Channel
Storm Photos of the Year
RadarScope Weather App
RadarOmega
GR Level 3
LR Timelapse
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54. Matt Payne: Richard and Matt's Wild Ride Across The Drake Passage Jan 29, 2024

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This episode was recorded with my friend, Matt Payne as we made a wild crossing of the Drake Passage last month. We were returning to Ushuaia, Argentina after a 21-day voyage to Antarctica where we encountered amazing scenery and wildlife, including the "impossible" emperor penguin on ice flows in the Weddell Sea.
This was an unscripted, unstructured conversation where we essentially interviewed each other. I was fighting seasickness and basically doing my best to stay upright during the conversation. It was a rollicking good time and a fun listen.
Matt Payne is a mountain climber and fine art nature and landscape photographer living in Durango, Colorado, as well as a fellow Muench Workshops pro.
Topics includes:

Stories from Antarctica
Seasickness and getting sick
The Avalanche
How does exhaustion effect creativity?
Matt's epic Colorado Trail thru-hike
Discussion on photography workshops
Introverts and extroverts
Additional skills needed to be a photography pro
Learning composition

And more...

Notable Links:
Matt Payne's Website
Matt's Colorado Trail Gallery
F-Stop Collaborate and Listen Podcast
Muench Workshops
The Polar Pioneer
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53. Ami Vitale: National Geographic Photographer on Seeing with the Heart, Panda Love, and Authentic Storytelling Jan 10, 2024

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Ami Vitale: National Geographic Photographer on Seeing with the Heart, Panda Love, and Authentic Storytelling

Ami Vitale is a National Geographic photographer, Nikon Ambassador, writer, speaker and documentary filmmaker.

She's a traveler to more than 100 countries and the recipient of numerous awards for her photography, including Magazine Photographer & International Photographer of the Year, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting, and a six-time award recipient from World Press Photos.
Ami is also a founder of a non-profit called Vital Impacts, a women-led, non-profit which uses art and storytelling to support people and organizations who are protecting our planet.
Topics Richard and Ami discuss:

Ami's beginnings as a photo editor at the Associated Press
Her first National Geographic assignment
Ami's transition from war photographer to wildlife and the environment
Storytelling versus fine art
Seeing with your heart versus seeing with your eyes
Ami's non-profit, Vital Impacts
Giant panda assignment in China
Authentic, solution-based storytelling.
Books that inspire

And much more.
Notable Links:
Ami Vitale Website
Ami Vitale Instagram
Vital Impacts
Panda Love: The Secret Lives of Pandas
Ami's photo of "Sudan," the last Northern White Rhino

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52. Hanne Strager: The Killer Whale Journals and Our Love and Fear of Orcas Dec 28, 2023

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Hanne Strager is a Danish biologist, whale researcher, and author of the award-winning book, The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas and A Modest Genius: The Story of Darwin’s Life and How His Ideas Changed Everything. Hanne co-founded Norway's Andenes Whale Center and has served as the Director of Exhibitions at the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
In this episode, Hanne and Richard talk about her newest book, Killer Whale Journals, and the relationships humans have had with orcas over the past many decades.
Topics includes:

The spark that ignited Hanne's interest in orcas.
Hanne's epiphany on the seas of Norway
Killer whale or orca?
Orca culture
Bombs and a massacre in Iceland
Orcas in captivity
The Whale Jail
Seattle's orphaned orca
Twofold bay and Old Tom
The orcas sighting that brought Hanne to tears

And more.
Notable Links:
Hanne Strager Website
Hanne Strager Instagram
Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas on Amazon
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51. William Neill on His New Yosemite Book, Insights Into Expressive Landscape Photography, and Being a Receptor For Inspiration Dec 14, 2023

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William Neill is an American landscape and nature photographer, writer and teacher. He’s been a resident of the Yosemite National Park area since 1977, and his award-winning photography has been widely published in books, magazines, calendars, posters, and his limited-edition prints. For about 30 years, William wrote a monthly column in Outdoor Photographer magazine.
The conversation this episode focuses on William's new book, Yosemite: Sanctuary in Stone, the wonder of Yosemite National Park, and the approach William takes when creating images in the feild.
Topics Richard and William discuss:

William's life and work in Yosemite.
Working with Ansel Adams.
What hasn't already been photographed in Yosemite?
What Yosemite has taught William as an artist.
How Yosemite: Sanctuary in Stone is different from his other Yosemite books.
A complicated relationship with Tunnel View.
Richard's favorite images from the book and why.
Being a "receptor for inspiration" when in the field.
What makes a good photo?
What gets William excited!

And much more.

Notable Links:
Link to Book: Yosemite: Sanctuary in Stone
Website
Instagram
Facebook
Twitter/X
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50. The Art of Branding: Lessons for Photographers on Personal Brand, Social Media, Sponsorships, and Marketing with Lexar's Joey Lopez Nov 29, 2023

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In this episode, we talk branding, influencers, gaining and working with corporate sponsors, marketing, and social media for photographers and artists. What is branding and what isn't? How important is consistency and authenticity? What should photographers do and not do on social media? How to market yourself. Plus a lot more.
Joey Lopez is the Director of Brand Marketing at Lexar. He launched the Lexar Influencer Program, working with renowned photographers and videographers to increase brand awareness. Joey has been responsible for creating digital and social media content and managing PR and event planning for Lexar's key product launches and trade shows.
Joey is also an accomplished portrait and wedding photographer.
Notable Links:
Joey Lopez Website
Joey Lopez Instagram
The Brand Called You by Tom Peters, Fast Company, 1997
Seth Godin's Blog
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49. Will Burrard-Lucas, Wildlife Photographer, Inventor, Entrepreneur: Pursuit of the Black Leopard and Beyond Nov 16, 2023

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Will Burrard-Lucas is a British wildlife photographer, best known for innovative camera techniques and devices that allow him to capture unique perspectives on wildlife not usually seen otherwise. He's the founder of Camtraptions, a company specializing in creative technology and photographic contraptions, including the Beetlecam and his own camera traps.
Will has published three books, The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction, Top Wildlife Sites Of The World, Land of Giants, and The Black Leopard: My Quest to Photograph One of Africa’s Most Elusive Big Cats, which we talk about at length in the interview.
Topics Richard and Will discuss:

Will's career beginnings as an accountant
Wide-angle approaches to wildlife photography
Introducing The BeetleCam: a remote-control, camera-mounted buggy
Will's hilarious first attempts with the BeetleCam
Homemade drones
Using camera traps
Pursuit of the black leopard
Will's newest book, The Black Leopard: My Quest to Photograph One of Africa’s Most Elusive Big Cats
Next project with lions

Notable Links:
Will Burrard-Lucas website
Will Burred-Lucas Instagram
Will's TEDx Talk on the pursuit of the Black Leopard
Camtraptions

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48. Terry White: Principal Director, Creative Cloud Evangelist for Adobe Inc. on Generative AI Photo Editing and Creation Nov 02, 2023

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Terry White is a 27-year veteran at Adobe, Inc. He currently holds the prestigious title of Principal Director, Creative Cloud Evangelist with a focus on photography.
Terry’s an award winning portrait and travel photographer who in 2016, was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. He’s delivered live keynote presentations at Adobe MAX, Photoshop World, and gave a TED talk titled AI Is Here.
He has a very popular YouTube channel with 500K followers and a highly influential photography and tech blog.
Topics Richard and Terry discuss:

The latest from Adobe MAX
New Lightroom features announced at Adobe Max
Photoshop's AI Generative Fill and Expand
Generative Fill vs. Content Aware Fill
Photoshop's Neural Filters
The History of Adobe and AI
Adobe Firefly
People's responses to new, transformational technologies
Reasons why photographers and artists fear AI
The secret to Terry's success as a "Photopreneur"
Terry's top 3 favorite tech gadgets

Notable Links:
Terry White's Tech Blog
Terry's TEDx Talk: 'AI Is Here'
Terry White's Instagram
Terry White on Twitter/X
Terry White's Photography Site
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