Chris Burkard, Adventure Photographer
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today, I’m joined by one of the world’s most successful adventure and nature photographers, Chris Burkard. Nearly 4 million people follow Chris’s work throughout the year on Instagram as he travels to some of the world’s most remote destinations and extreme environments, often requiring Chris to take on immense challenges to capture his work. His stories inspire us to consider our relationship with nature, and the importance of the preservation of wild places everywhere.
His travel diaries take us from Greenland to the Kuril Islands, and from remote Iceland to the beaches of California, with some great photographs tips at the end, too.
Destination Recap
- Pismo Beach, California, USA
- Yosemite, California, USA
- Iceland
- Kuril Islands
- Ísafjörður, Iceland
- Greenland
- Nicaragua
- Lake Baikal, Russia
- Mongolia
- Faroe Islands
- Svalbard
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm your host, journalist Holly Rubinstein, and here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about the seven chapters in their life's travel diaries. |
| 0:18.9 | From their earliest childhood travel memory and the first place they fell in love with |
| 0:23.4 | to their hidden gem and what's at the top of their travel bucket list, |
| 0:27.6 | we'll be uncovering their adventures around the world |
| 0:30.2 | and the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. |
| 0:35.5 | On today's episode, I'm joined by one of the world's most successful adventure and nature |
| 0:41.0 | photographers, Chris Burkard. |
| 0:43.4 | Nearly four million people follow Chris on Instagram as he travels throughout the year to some |
| 0:48.8 | of the world's most remote destinations and extreme environments, often requiring Chris to |
| 0:54.0 | take on immense physical challenges to capture his work. |
| 0:57.8 | His stories inspire us to consider our relationship with nature and the importance of the preservation of wild places everywhere. |
| 1:05.4 | His travel diaries take us from Greenland to the Carill Islands and from remote Iceland to the beaches of California |
| 1:13.6 | with some great photography tips at the end too. So buckle up. Let's get started. Chris Burkhard, welcome to the travel diaries. This has been a long time in the making. Thank you so much for joining me today. How are you? |
| 1:37.2 | I'm good. Thank you for having me. I'm sorry that sometimes it can be a little challenging with my travel schedule to kind of line |
| 1:44.4 | things up. And I know that this has been a little bit in the making in terms of scheduling and |
| 1:49.6 | aligning travel dates and those things. So I appreciate your patience. And it's grateful. I'm grateful |
| 1:55.0 | to be here. Where are I talking to you from? Where are you at right now? Oh, well, I'm in London |
| 2:00.0 | in England. Beautiful. And you are? I'm in London, in England, and you are? |
| 2:02.7 | I'm in California, Pizmo Beach. I've got a little studio space right by the ocean, and my house is |
| 2:09.4 | about three miles away, and I live in kind of a remote part of Central California. So it's, |
| 2:13.8 | I feel lucky, say the least. Well, actually, before we get started with your travel diaries, |
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