Pictures of the Year

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Every year, National Geographic rolls the year into a collection of photos for its “Pictures of the Year” issue. It’s a mysterious process, and we’re about to share it with you. We’ll see what baby carriages are like in Greenland, witness the moment SpaceX burst into a cypress swamp, and make a new four-legged friend as deputy director of photography Sadie Quarrier shares with us the choice photos for this year. For more information on this episode, visit natgeo.com/overheard. Want more? Interested in learning more about Kiliii Yüyan? We’ve got an article for you that explores how he became the photographer he is today. Also explore To see Mac Stone’s photos, take a look at his website, macstonephoto.com. He specializes in photographing swamps, the Everglades, and Florida Bay. Plus, Katie Orlinsky’s photos go far beyond tapirs. See some more of the photos she’s taken around the world at katieorlinskyphoto.com. For subscribers See how we summed up 2022 in the “Pictures of the Year.” It hits newsstands in December. Fuel your curiosity with a free one-month trial subscription to Nat Geo Digital. You’ll have unlimited access on any device, anywhere, ad-free with our app that lets you download stories to read off-line. Explore every page ever published with a century of digital archives at your fingertips. Check it all out for free at natgeo.com/exploremore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you in part by Geico, proud sponsor of National Geographic.
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0:17.2	I had just arrived and so I, and I'm breathing hard, 17,000 five-hundred feet is no joke. I mean,
0:24.2	I had gotten sick. All of us had kind of gotten sick on the way up. I'd gotten particularly sick.
0:28.4	I can barely get my breath. That's Sadie Courier. She's National Geographic's deputy director of
0:34.6	photography and she's talking about the time she went on assignment to Mount Everest with photographer
0:40.0	Corey Richards. We arrive and that day something was happening. Something I heard over the radio
0:46.8	Corey needs to be evacuated and Corey kind of comes into the, you know, the center of base camp
0:54.6	which is like a huge city. He's like light jogging with an oxygen mask on and here I am barely
1:00.7	able to talk. So anyway, I hopped on and helicoptered. Really not planned at all. I didn't have money
1:06.9	with me or a cell phone or my contact lenses. I just signaled to him. We couldn't even hear each other
1:12.2	over the helicopter. But I thought I've come all this way from the US to be with this photographer,
1:17.4	to work with him to produce content for the magazine story and the iPad and the Instagram. And he's
1:22.7	in a serious, I thought potentially near that situation. So I just hopped into the helicopter and
1:29.1	boom, down we went. I'm Peter Gwyn, Editor at Large at National Geographic and you're listening
1:35.1	to overheard a show where we eavesdrop on the wild conversations we have here at Natuio and fall
1:40.6	them to the edges of our big, weird, beautiful world. This week Sadie talks about the challenges
1:47.4	of choosing the photographs that appear in National Geographic. What makes a photo stand out from
1:51.8	literally the tens of thousands of frames of photographer takes on assignment. And which special
1:56.9	photos stood out for her in 2022? More after the break. Fuel your curiosity with a free one-month
2:07.2	trial subscription to Natuio Digital. You'll have unlimited access on any device anywhere,
2:12.8	add free with our app that lets you download stories to read offline. Explore every page
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