National Geographic

I take my hat off to these guys:-


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Unbelievable, Clive. Once again you bring us the goodies. Thank You.

Spectacular photos - and photos worth studying as well.

We must not forget our late great National Geographic photographer, Grant Haist.

I'll bet most of you have never even seen his photos. Most were probably published before you were born.

PE

I just thumbed through a stack of recent NG's. I applaud them for getting a little more brave, especially in terms of expanding their footprint using amateur contributions. But after awhile it gets awfully cutesy and gimmicky, esp the digi manipulated things; and the way the images are or not cropped for publication often spoils them. It's not an art magazine by a long shot. Fun to thumb thru, but not very satisfying in the long haul. More like tasting ice cream samples rather than having a good steak. But that's what the NG magazine is for - relaxed quickie reading with fun pictures. What I most admire in recent years is features like those of Jim Brandenburg, going out and taking only one nature picture a day and making it stick - shows that not all photojournalists need be machine gunners. They have come a long ways since the day of needing someone in every printed shot wearing a red sweater. But no, I won't be ordering any prints from them anytime soon.

I agree Kudos indeed. Spectacular photos.

Photo Engineer said:

We must not forget our late great National Geographic photographer, Grant Haist.

I'll bet most of you have never even seen his photos. Most were probably published before you were born.

PE

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Photo Engineer said:

We must not forget our late great National Geographic photographer, Grant Haist.

I'll bet most of you have never even seen his photos. Most were probably published before you were born.

PE

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PE, do you really mean before 1931? I do have a few issues published during the 1920s but I bought those. The photographs in those seem to have mostly been taken with plate or maybe sheetfilm cameras. No 500 to 1000 exposures to get 1 usable picture in those days. It was in the 1930s that they began to use Kodachrome in the magazine. They used color much earlier but not as much.....Regards!

I did say most, not all. Even so, remember that Grant was about 95 when he passed away, and had been active up until the 90s. His first photos date from much earlier than that though.

PE

Superb images NG photographers at there best. Have been looking at some photos recently from NG photographer Cory Richards on his extreme
exhibitions and recent climb without oxygen on Everest . Have just signed up for the special offer NG are doing think it was £19 for 12 months subscription
for the magazine and access to the online digital magazine and access to there whole 128 year archive.

My favourite National Geographic picture of all time was the Vampire Bat about to consume the unassuming frog on lily pad.