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123: A Storied Career in Travel Photography with Robert Holmes
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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Oct 24, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
On this episode, Robert Holmes shares his stories from his career as a travel photographer, covering an expedition to Mount Everest and meeting Ansel Adams, and more.
Robert Holmes career as one of the world’s most successful and prolific travel photographers has extended over 35 years. He was the first photographer to be twice honored by the Society of American Travel Writers with their Travel Photographer of the Year Award and he is the only photographer to be given the award 4 times, most recently for 2015.
He has worked for National Geographic, Geo, Saveur, Wine Spectator, Life, Time and hundreds of other major magazines and international companies. His stock catalog of over half-a-million images is represented for licensing by National Geographic Image Collection, Corbis and Getty.
His assignments have taken him from coverage of the 1975 British Everest Expedition for the London Daily Mail and Paris Match to searching for snow leopards in the remote valleys of western Nepal for National Geographic Magazine, trekking into the rain forests of Borneo with Penan tribesmen for Islands Magazine and crossing the Great Indian Desert on camel for Departures.
What we cover:
How Robert Holmes found his career in travel photography.
Photography, Robert's thoughts and opinions on the state of the craft, industry, and career.
How boldly going after what he wants has led Robert to create opportunities for himself, including gigs with National Geographic.
Robert's experience getting to know Ansel Adams.
Explore further:
Robert Holmes Photography
@travelpix on Twitter
Music credit: Intrepid Journey, by Aaron Static
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Robert Holmes career as one of the world’s most successful and prolific travel photographers has extended over 35 years. He was the first photographer to be twice honored by the Society of American Travel Writers with their Travel Photographer of the Year Award and he is the only photographer to be given the award 4 times, most recently for 2015.
He has worked for National Geographic, Geo, Saveur, Wine Spectator, Life, Time and hundreds of other major magazines and international companies. His stock catalog of over half-a-million images is represented for licensing by National Geographic Image Collection, Corbis and Getty.
His assignments have taken him from coverage of the 1975 British Everest Expedition for the London Daily Mail and Paris Match to searching for snow leopards in the remote valleys of western Nepal for National Geographic Magazine, trekking into the rain forests of Borneo with Penan tribesmen for Islands Magazine and crossing the Great Indian Desert on camel for Departures.
What we cover:
How Robert Holmes found his career in travel photography.
Photography, Robert's thoughts and opinions on the state of the craft, industry, and career.
How boldly going after what he wants has led Robert to create opportunities for himself, including gigs with National Geographic.
Robert's experience getting to know Ansel Adams.
Explore further:
Robert Holmes Photography
@travelpix on Twitter
Music credit: Intrepid Journey, by Aaron Static
Become a Friend of the Show: Please subscribe and review!
It just takes a second and you can help the show increase its rankings on iTunes just by this simple and quick gesture. We’d be grateful for a review. Leave one here. If you do, click here to let me know so I can personally thank you!
Your Feedback
If you have an idea for a podcast you would like to see or a question about an upcoming episode, email me! I’d love to hear from you.
Thank you so much for your support!
The post 123: A Storied Career in Travel Photography with Robert Holmes appeared first on The Daily Travel Podcast.
Released:
Oct 24, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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