environmental photography

Episode 0031: Interview with Conservation Photographer Daniel Beltrá

by Dave Warner on December 22, 2009

LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Conservation Photographer Daniel Beltrá. Daniel is a Spanish photographer based in Seattle. He brings the sensibility and craft of a news photographer to the fields of nature and the environment, making images which he hopes will spur greater respect and conservation of those subjects. He has documented several expeditions by Greenpeace to the Brazilian Amazon, the Arctic, the Southern Oceans and the Patagonian Ice Fields, among many others.

This year, Daniel was awarded the Prince’s Rain Forest Project given via the Sony World Photography Awards. The award, granted by Prince Charles, sent Daniel for three months to the Congo, Amazon and Indonesian rain forests to create photos for a book, website and traveling exhibition about the perilous fate that the world’s rain forests face.

In this episode, Daniel talks about being a photojournalist in Spain, the things that caused him to convert to conservation photography, the Prince’s Rain Forest Project, the environment, Greenpeace, and what it was like to be ABC News’ Person of the Week. We created a special video of Daniel’s images with his explanation of each that plays (above) and then the full podcast interview is below.

Equipment, Software and sites mentioned in this podcast: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 1DS Mark III, 16-35 mm lens, 24-70mm lens, 70-200mm lens, 100-400mm lens, 500mm lens, extenders, Pelican Cases, Think Tank Bags, Wimberly Head, Adobe Photoshop, Polar Obsession by Paul Nicklen.

Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., ScanCafe (provide code LF35 for a 20% discount off your first order), Podcast network commercials from Rosh Sillars New Media Photographer and Jim Goldstein EXIF and beyond

To listen to the full podcast interview, click on the player’s forward arrow below. You can also play the Podcast in a pop up window, download it OR subscribe to it via iTunes. You can also download a List of Questions (PDF format) that I ask in the interview.

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Episode 0015: Interview with Gabby Salazar, Canon Nature & Conservation Photographer

by Dave Warner on September 1, 2009

LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Canon Photographer Gabby Salazar. Gabby is a 22 year-old from Greensboro, North Carolina. She has traveled throughout North America and to over fifteen countries to take photographs. In 2002 Gabby won the Nature’s Best Photography Youth Category and in 2004, she was named BBC Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year. In September of 2008, Gabby was recognized by Glamour Magazine as one of the Top 10 College Women in the United States for her work with children, photography and the environment.

(C) Gabby Salazar

In this episode, Gabby talks about her focus, her travels, how she was able to PAY for that travel at such a young age, her favorite places to photograph, the National Park Service Artist in Residence program, her generation’s approach to photography, and use of conservation photography to help spread knowledge of environmental issues.

Equipment and Software mentioned in this podcast: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon 24-70 mm lens, Canon 100-400 mm lens, Canon 180mm macro lens, Canon EFS 10-22 mm lens, Adobe Lightroom, Noise Ninja, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Canon Cable Release.

Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., ScanCafe

To listen to the full podcast interview, click on the player’s forward arrow below. You can also play the Podcast in a popup window, download it OR subscribe to it via iTunes. We created a special video of Gabby’s images with her explanation of each that opens in a popup window, just click, watch and listen.

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