Ep. 977: Remembering Legendary Colorado Photographer - John Fielder
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
John Fielder photography: From rejection by every publisher to iconic coffee table books and walls worldwide – the relentless journey, hard-earned success, capturing America's beauty, and even reaching the Pope himself.
You're probably familiar with John's name and work but do you know about his journey from not being able to get a single company to publish his books to now being on countless coffee tables and walls around the world? Pursuing your dreams is not always a cakewalk. In fact, sometimes it's a downright nightmare but every once in a while, if you're lucky, your hard work lands in the hands of the Pope himself. Listen to the episode to learn what that's about! I hope you enjoy this honest conversation from one of America's most iconic photographers.
Thank you for your relentless sense of adventure and commitment to capturing the beauty of this earth. John Fielder, 1950-2023.
You will be missed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. Today is a throwback |
| 0:25.3 | Thursday episode, but it's one of my first ever interviews and it was with John Fielder, the famous, |
| 0:32.0 | world famous Colorado photographer, probably the most famous photographer to ever come out of |
| 0:36.3 | Colorado. His books can be |
| 0:37.8 | found all over the world. Like I said, there was one on my coffee table, his black and white images |
| 0:43.0 | that came out around the time of this episode. But I listened back and I'm like, oh my gosh, |
| 0:48.5 | one of my first interviews, this was rough. I feel like I'm a lot better now, but it doesn't matter. John said |
| 0:56.2 | it was one of his favorite interviews ever. And in fact, I went to a talk not long after this, |
| 1:01.6 | where he spoke and gave a presentation to hundreds of people. And he said, he pointed to me |
| 1:06.6 | and said, hey, that guy right there gave me the best interview of my life. And that will be something |
| 1:11.6 | I take to my grave. I'm actually probably going to put it on my resume. It was the most encouraging |
| 1:18.0 | words that probably, that I needed at the time when first taken over this show and still gets me |
| 1:25.1 | giddy thinking about it. But the reason we're playing this episode today is because |
| 1:30.4 | John Fielder has passed away is actually a couple months ago. So this is a little late. I just |
| 1:34.9 | have been meaning to revisit this. I had some issues with the file, the audio file, but I got |
| 1:40.9 | at work in and it's out a little late. But just with his passing from |
| 1:45.7 | pancreatic cancer, at the age of 73, gone way too soon. He had so much more work to do, so much more, |
| 1:53.1 | so many more pictures to take and so much more advocacy to achieve. His pictures were so |
| 1:59.7 | instrumental in the protection of a lot of wild places in Colorado. |
| 2:05.0 | They were used to show to legislation and decision makers, hey, here's what we want to |
| 2:10.5 | protect. It was instrumental in the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993. He won tons of lifetime |
| 2:17.3 | achievement awards and a lot of firsts. And like I said, |
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