Ep. 962: From Brooklyn Upbringing to Wildlife Photographer - George McKenzie Jr.
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Adventure Photography: George McKenzie Jr. on National Geographic Award-Winning Wildlife Storytelling – From Brooklyn Roots to Camera Trapping in Path of the Panther, Central Florida Wilderness. George McKenzie Jr. is a National Geographic Society award-winning visual storyteller from Brooklyn, NY, who specializes in wildlife, natural history, and conservation. How did George go from being born and raised in Brooklyn to a career focused on some of the deepest wildernesses in the world? It started with a camera and a wild idea.
Most recently, George’s journey took him to Central Florida where he specialized in “camera trapping” during the filming of Path of the Panther.
Today we’ll hear about George’s unique path, a growing passion for a place he now calls home, and how being willing to take a risk can change your life for the better.
Learn more about George by following the links below:
https://www.instagram.com/georgemckenziejr/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:17.2 | Today we're talking to my good friend, George McKenzie, Jr. He is born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, |
| 0:25.0 | but now lives on the prairie of Wild Florida. I know y'all don't believe me. I'm from Florida. I know y'all |
| 0:31.8 | hear that a lot. Florida has some amazing backwoods, wild lands, working lands, ranches, cattle ranches. I mean, it is, |
| 0:40.8 | it is as wonderful as a landscape in place in wilderness as anywhere I've ever been on this planet. |
| 0:46.9 | And a lot of people don't realize that. And George did not realize that, having grown up in |
| 0:51.5 | Brooklyn, but when he got the opportunity to come down here through his |
| 0:54.7 | skills in photography to work on the film that came out earlier this year, Path of the Panther, |
| 1:01.0 | he had an enormous, unfathomable learning curve about what he was jumping into. |
| 1:07.7 | Panthers and gaiters and pythons swamps and and just everything that is here in |
| 1:14.2 | Florida he that he had no clue about bears all that stuff panthers i might have said that already |
| 1:20.7 | well of course the movie was about panthers but if you don't recall we had the director of that |
| 1:26.2 | film eric bendick on a couple months ago, |
| 1:28.5 | to talk about filming this amazing documentary about tracking the Florida Panther. |
| 1:35.0 | It's a big cat like a tiger or a lion that lives in the wilderness of Florida down in the |
| 1:40.2 | Everglades, mostly, that is actually expanding its territory. It's the largest |
| 1:45.4 | mammal or the largest cat or the only cat in the world whose territory is actually expanding. |
| 1:50.2 | Well, George was a part of that story and a part of this innovative thing called camera traps, |
| 1:55.9 | which are basically just like a trap, but instead of, you know, it being a rope or, or to catch you a cage or |
| 2:02.4 | anything, it's a camera. So it's, you, you trip a wire or a laser or something, and it snaps |
| 2:08.3 | pictures, but not just any pictures, cinematic quality video and photography. And so George |
| 2:14.2 | has been all over the state of Florida learning about that. And his story is so unique, so different, especially for Florida. |
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