Some changes to the podcast are announced this week, hope you all enjoy!  For the first time in the history of this podcast, this episode is also available to watch on YouTube if you are intrested. 

TT Artisan 250mm f/5.6 Reflex

My guests Kyle Boehm and Matt Parish from the Angry Bird Pod Show join me to discuss their podcast, laying around for ducks, Kyle's love of new gear, and Matt's appreciation for plumage and detail in some of his bird photography.

Instagram: @_mattparish

Instagram: @kyle.boehm.photography

Podcast: Angry Bird Pod Show

Fighting Mice in Subway

My guest Ben Knoot joins me to discuss his amazing travel schedule, working with OM systems gear to capture the wildlife photos he does, and his new venture starting his own wildlife photography tour company Experience Nature Tours.

Instagram: @benknoot

Website: Experience Nature Tours

Brad shares about photographing waterfowl in the rough surf and playing with slower shutter speeds for unique effects. Brad also shares about a side-project he is working on attaching stuff near the front of his lens to create foreground bokeh. I share about my outing that morning using the underwater housing again and also doing some more normal bird photography with the 28-400mm lens that I'm loving! We wrap up the show talking about sharing photos on Instagram with a carousel or small collection of photos and how that is perceived when viewed.

Brad shares about some ideas and plans to photograph Purple Sandpipers along the rugged coast of Newfoundland. I share about an outing photographing Florida Scrub Jays, then I photographed Night Herons in the dark at night, and I wrapped up my past week with my first outing using a dome port on the underwater housing and trying to photograph split-level shots of wading and shorebirds in Florida.

We wrap up the show answering a listener question from Nathan Watson who asked: I always enjoy your podcasts with Brad, and in a recent episode there was a bit of conversation about aches and pains and generally getting older. I could relate, but it also got me thinking about the inevitable end we all face in life, and what would happen with my photography. I thought it might make an interesting discussion topic for your podcast, not from a morbid perspective, but to encourage genuine thought about what our end of life wishes for our images would be given we put so much energy, passion and creativity into them. Over decades we accumulate galleries of many thousands of images. These images have value - sentimental value to our families, commercial value as art, or educational value that could support conservation causes. What would you and Brad want to happen to your image libraries? Do you want your family to have them, or would you prefer to leave them to a charitable conservation organization that could use them towards good causes?

My guest Steve Perry joins me to share about his trip to Theodore Roosevelt National Park where he photographed a Prairie Dog wide angle with auto capture on a Nikon camera. We also chat about always looking around for other options when shooting, specifically on workshops. We talked about his take on being creative with wildlife photography and wrap up talking about how much less attention his videos about field-craft and techniques get compared to videos about gear.

Website: www.backcountrygallery.com

Instagram: @backcountrygallery

Prairie Dog shot

Bison photo

Anhinga backlit

It's the 200th episode! A huge thanks to all of you listeners both new and old that have been listening to the show. This week Brad shares about his time photographing surfing ducks, and his time with friendly Cormorants. I share about my first time swimming with sharks in the Bahamas and then we wrap up the show talking about how our photography and approach to it has changed since 2019 when the first episode of this podcast came out!

Luca Lorenz - Tufted Duck ICM

Brad’s surfing duck

Brad’s closeup Cormorant