This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Arizona, home of the Grand Canyon, and home of photographer Amy Martin.

Well, my name is Amy Martin. I was born and, in Arizona.

Amy Martin works all over the world,

but she got her start taking pictures of the Grand Canyon.

I was a ranger.

I started off working in the emergency services,

and so I worked as a ranger there for three years and then I moved into the

canyon and I was a backcountry ranger.

As a ranger, Martin would spend weeks at a time in the backcountry and on on every trip into the canyon, she'd bring her camera.

Every so often, there'd be a moment that she just couldn't ignore.

The light is reflecting off of everything because it's coming down, it's hitting the water, it's bouncing back up on these incredibly huge beautiful cliff faces that are every different color, you know, of red and orange and it's just it's amazing it's

magical. You might even say that the canyon taught her how to be a photographer

because in the canyon

canyon you have to pay attention to the sun.

In the summer temperatures would creep past 115 degrees so she was always on

the lookout for shade. In the winter it's freezing and she would only get a few hours on the Canyon. If you're always paying attention to light, I think you see the magic that can happen with that and

being able to capture that in photographs and photography has really helped me hone in my skills.

So if you want to start learning photography photography and you want to do it in the

Grand Canyon, go to visit Arizona.com to plan your adventure. That's visit Arizona. From Outside Magazine and PRX, this is the science of survival.

Hey everyone, this is Robbie, the behind-the-scenes producer on the podcast.

I'm leading out the episode today because I need you to understand something pretty important

about Pete, the guy who usually kicks off our episodes.

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