Jack and John welcome a longtime friend to the show, Mr Jerry Greer.  In this episode we get an in-depth look in to the book publishing business as well as a lively discussion with Jerry about his photographic journey and his thoughts on creativity.

Jerry Greer is an award-winning photographer from Johnson City, Tennessee. His internationally-acclaimed images have been published world-wide in books, calendars, magazines, and conservation and advertising campaigns by clients such as Outdoor Photographer, View Camera, Backpacker, Mountain Bike Action, Recreational Equipment Inc., Royal Robbins, The Conservation Fund, Pew Charitable Trusts, Earthjustice and The Southern Environmental Law Center; among many others.

His photography focuses on natural history, conservation and the environment of the Blue Ridge and southern Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont and Atlantic Coast, and other natural areas of North America.

Jerry D. Greer was introduced to the wonders of the wilderness at an early age, and this eye-opening introduction guides his photography to this day. Growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains bestowed in him a desire to protect and conserve their vanishing ecosystems. He uses his personal connections with wild places, together with a very contemplative eye, to create his beautiful and evocative imagery.  His internationally acclaimed and award-winning images have been published in numerous books, calendars, magazines, and conservation and advertising campaigns. Some of his clients include The Conservation Fund, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Outdoor Photographer, WNC Magazine, Mountain Bike Magazine, REI, Royal Robbins, LL Bean, The Lyndhurst Foundation, Wild South, Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition and The Southern Environmental Law Center; among others. Jerry is the author and photographer of eight books and a yearly wall calendar. Jerry is also the owner of Mountain Trail Press. He lives in Johnson City, TN with his wife, Abbey and their daughter, Serén.

Jerrys Website:  http://www.jerrygreerphotography.com

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Mountain Trail Press:  www.mountaintrailpress.com

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Jack and John welcome Sarah Marino to the podcast.  Sarah is an accomplished landscape and nature photographer and educator who shares her passion for the creative arts with us in her insightful and illuminating way.  Sarah and her partner Ron Coscorrosa have written many books related to photography and have travelled the world photographing the beauty all around us.  Listen in for an engaging conversation with Sarah on how she approaches her craft and her passions in life.

Nature Photo Guides

Nature Photo Guides features the photography of Sarah Marino and Ron Coscorrosa, high-quality educational photography ebooks and video tutorials, photography resources, and stories about our travels around the United States in an Airstream trailer.

We are nature photographers based in rural southwestern Colorado. Sarah is a full-time photographer, photography educator, and writer and Ron is a software engineer who spends all of his free time on photography and in nature. We travel extensively around the United States and beyond.  We used to camp and live out of our SUV for long stretches of time but upgraded to a silvery home-away-from-home, a 25-foot Airstream trailer, in 2014.  Our Airstream enables us to work remotely while traveling and experience new places for extended periods of time.

 Nature Photo Guides Website:  https://www.naturephotoguides.com

The We Talk Photo podcast is dedicated to being an entertaining, informative and lighthearted discussion about a wide range of photographic topics centered around landscape and nature photography.  Hosted by Jack Graham and John Pedersen, long time industry professionals, they will bring you in to their conversations about gear, recent trends, insightful interviews with industry leaders as well as entertaining stories from their collective experience in the photography business.

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Jack and John talk with our good friend Dimitri Vasileiou, the founder and publisher of Landscape Photography Magazine.   Listen in as we talk about the photo magazine business as well as many photo related topics.  A lively discussion amidst the pandemic and how that has impact photography in general as well as the popularity of Landscape Photography Magazine as people are home much more than usual.

Dimitris Bio

I was born in Greece but moved to Scotland in 1997. Coming from a warm climate, my first impressions were how wet this country was! Needless to say that my first impression of Scotland simply being one big puddle of dampness evaporated like dew drops in the morning sun, as soon as I started visiting the highlands. I was totally overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of Northern Scotland and this, in return, led me to rediscover my fascination with photography.

Like many other photographers I realised that, after starting a family I no longer had the time needed to devote to photography, but this eventually began to change as my children grew up. After falling in love with the Scottish countryside, I bought myself my first SLR film camera and this is where it all began.

What is it that I like so much about taking pictures of natural landscapes? I like the feeling of being humbled by the beauty and majesty of locations. I also love the quality of natural light as it touches every part of a scene, especially during the so called ‘Golden hours’ and the challenge Scotland’s weather can throw by my feet. Do I have a favourite location? Not really; I am happy to be wherever there is beauty and beauty can be found all around me.

In 2011 I founded Landscape Photography Magazine. I am the editor and currently writing articles every month for the publication.

Website: https://landscapephotographymagazine.com

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Jack and John welcome Justin Black to the program.  Listen in as they discuss photography, conservation and a few funny stories along the way.

Justin Black is a photographer, writer, and explorer from Washington, DC. A leader in his field, his photographs of the world’s high and wild places have been published widely and featured in numerous exhibitions around the U.S. and abroad, from the UK and Germany to Los Angeles and the United States Capitol. Several exhibitions of his work have been hosted at Mountain Light Gallery in California, founded by world-renowned adventure photographer Galen Rowell. A Fellow of the International League of Conservation Writers (ILCW), and formerly executive director of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP), Black has contributed photography and writing in support of conservation campaigns to protect threatened landscapes and ecosystems from British Columbia to Brazil, and from California’s Sierra Nevada to the Chesapeake Bay watershed, in collaboration with leading conservation organizations.

Artist Statement

My photography is all about looking into the world, honoring, and sharing; recognizing the importance of or assigning importance to the content that I choose to place within the frame, and sharing my personal experience, vision, and perspective with other humans. I am interested in the interconnectedness, and ultimately the inseparability, of wild nature and that minuscule, almost insignificant portion of the universe that has experienced the presence of humanity, and is therefore variously considered altered, civilized, degraded, developed, exploited, monetized, and transformed. Its profound importance stems from the fact that it is likely to be the only home that we as a species, and all the rest of life on Earth, will ever have.

The human factor is critically important to me. In this age of drones, camera traps, and other remote imaging devices, my job as a photographer behind the camera is, in part, to give a picture soul. That is to say, “I’m like you, I was there, and this is my personal experience.” As today’s ubiquitous digital media feeds us images at a breakneck pace, with the expectation that we will ingest innumerable small, low-quality images and quickly move on, I have intentionally made pictures that invite the viewer to slow down and spend time with them, discovering unexpected elements that reveal themselves only in due course. As such, I have used large format film and high resolution digital cameras to produce finely detailed photographs, printed at a large scale using museum-grade techniques and materials. This approach leverages photography’s greatest strengths: to permit over time the inspection and interrogation of frozen fleeting moments in our world, and to enable us to explore the passage of time within a static image.

I invite the viewer to join me on a journey of exploration at scales large and small, in an effort to share unique ways of looking at landscapes, ecosystems, animals, natural phenomena, human activity, and aesthetic relationships in the world, whether or not the viewer has the opportunity, or indeed the inclination, to experience them on their own. If my work opens anyone’s eyes, then I consider it to have succeeded.

Justins Website:  https://justinblackphoto.com/

Visionary Wild Website:  https://visionarywild.com

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Jack and John talk with Josh Lutz, President of Magnachrome Inc, one of the leading manufacturers of metal prints.  Magnachrome is very unique in that besides printing images on metal, they also offer an outstanding selection of metal frames to mount the metal prints in.  If you haven’t seen one of these metal frames, you owe it to yourself.   Listen in as we dive in to the hows and whys of metal printing technologiy.

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John and Jack welcome back Chris Klapheke, owner, of Outdoorphotogear.com.  In this episode Chris shares some of his insights as a retailer during the pandemic and gives some thoughtful insight around photography.

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John and Jack welcome Marc Sadowski from the Fujilove Podcast.  Marc is an accomplished photographer, focusing on weddings and couples for much of his creative work, and, he also enjoys getting outside to photograph the landscape and nature whenever possible.

If you are into Fujifilm X / GFX cameras and lenses, make sure you are subscribed to the FujiLove Podcast for interviews with Fujifilm X-Photographers, photography discussions, assignments, Fujifilm related news and more.

Fujilove Podcast: https://fujilove.com/fuji-love-podcast/

Fujilove Magazine: http://www.fujilovemag.com/

IG: marcsadowski

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Jack and John welcome an accomplished photographer, musician, artist and all-around great guy to the program, John Barclay.  John leads workshops in the US and abroad and has new-found inspiration practicing mindful photography to capture more of what he feels in each image.  Listen to this engaging and though provoking podcast.

Johns Artist Statement

I always created images, but I was never “a photographer.”  I told myself I wasn’t creative.  I wasn’t artistic.  My stick figures were failures.  But I had this new camera and I wanted to learn how to use it.  On the first night of my first photo workshop, I stared in awe at the images shared by the group.  The dream of being a “good” photographer was born.  I sought out great photographers like Dan Sniffin, Tony Sweet and Nancy Rotenberg and I emulated them, listened to them, and learned from them.  But I became a photographer in my own right when Nancy forbade me to look through anyone else’s viewfinder for the entire duration of an epic trip to Africa.  “Follow YOUR vision,” she said, “and make the pictures that only you can see.”  Doubtful, but willing, I began looking for the images that spoke directly to me, that pulled my eye or aroused my imagination.  I looked for connection, and found my photographer self.

I created my program “Dream • Believe • Create” to reflect my artistic journey.  I began my journey with few skills, but aspired to be better.  I watched and learned, gained a bit of confidence, and then began to see photography not only as a reflection of the world around me, but also as the representation of the reality inside me. My photographic journey freed me to create what was uniquely mine. Being genuinely aware of the beauty around me as I look through my lens feeds my soul and brings me great joy.  I encourage the participants in my workshops to share that journey and discover the artist residing inside each of them.

Johns Website:  https://johnbarclayphotography.com

Article Jack mentioned about “Knowing your Ax”  https://jackgrahamphoto.com/2011/06/20/practicing-know-your-ax-perfecting-your-skills-never-stop-fine-tuning/

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It is once again our pleasure to welcome Guy Tal to the show.  Guy continues to challenge himself and others in how we approach our craft of photography, or artwork in general.   Guy if one of the best photographers and writers in our field today as well as being one of the most well-versed people you will ever have the pleasure of listening to.  And, he is one heck of a nice guy!

Guy has recently released a 2nd edition of his fantastic book, More Than A Rock and he discusses the new content as well as the underlying premises for the book in this podcast episode.  We touch on each of the 4 sections of this book as well as having Guy read excerpts from the new content.

If you haven’t read this book yet, you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy and read it several times.  There is so much good content and intricate thinking that you’ll probably need to read it 2-3 times to feel the full weight of his writings.

The book is available through Rocky Nook HERE

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On this episode we have one of the hardest working guys in the photo biz, Mr Michael Gordon.  Michael joins Jack and John to talk about his photographic journey and his approach to photography today.   Give a listen and check out Michaels website and photo workshops.

Michaels Bio

Michael E. Gordon is an award-winning fine art landscape photographer best known for his black and white impressions of California’s deserts which, said Broughton Quarterly, portrays “stunning ethereal beauty from terrain where others see only a bleak landscape.” A lifelong student of nature and wilderness, Michael’s intimate relationship with the natural world yields quiet images of depth and discovery.

Michael’s photographs have been published in and on the covers of numerous magazines, web publications, calendars, and academic textbooks. His fine art prints are held internationally in the private collections of the United States Embassy, Kaiser Permanente; Milken Family Foundation; The Wilderness Society, and many others. Publications and clients include Medium Format magazine; On Landscape; SHOTS magazine; Arte Fotográfico; Backpacker; B+W Photography (UK); View Cameramagazine; Rangefinder magazine; Broughton Quarterly; Defenders magazine; The Wilderness Society; Campaign for America’s Wilderness; USDA Forest Service; Brooks/Cole Publishing; and many more. Awards and recognition include International Photography Awards, Prix de la Photographie, Paris, and Black & White Spider Awards. In early 2015, Michael was a featured on-camera Death Valley expert in an NHK Japan full-length documentary film

The landscape came before the camera. I am a lifelong student of nature and wilderness and my beliefs were shaped early in life by the words of John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Wallace Stegner long before I considered photography or making a life with it. I’ve long considered myself a naturalist first and artist second. Nature and wilderness are significantly more meaningful than beautiful places to make photographs; they are integral to my personal well-being and creativity.

The intimate and easy-to-overlook is the focus of my work. I am compelled by texture and form; the organic and the unnatural; and the unusual and ephemeral. My goal is to portray a personal communion I share with the land as well as the rare and transcendental moments it shares with me.

Michaels Website:  https://www.michael-gordon.com

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