TCF Ep. 457 - Mark Thiessen

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Mark Thiessen has been a photographer with National Geographic since 1990 and on staff since 1997. He is widely published in all areas of the National Geographic Society, including National Geographic magazine, National Geographic Adventure magazine, and National Geographic Traveler magazine. National Geographic books that feature Thiessen's work include Return to Midway, which documents the discovery of the U.S.S. Yorktown, and Baseball as America, a look at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Thiessen has contributed to many articles for National Geographic magazine, including "Monsters of Madagascar" (August 2000), "Russian Smokejumpers (August 2002), "Search for Other Earths" (December 2002), and "Nanotechnology" (June 2006). In 1996, Thiessen began a personal photography project on wildland firefighters that took him to the front lines of wildfires every summer. To better understand the world of this little known subculture, he became a certified wildland firefighter. An award-winning online piece, FireCall, features Thiessen's photographs and interviews with a veteran wildland firefighter. Thiessen was also profiled for an episode of the National Geographic Channel's Out There series. Resources: Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	This is YabodyNX, and this is The Candid Frame.
0:12.0	Even though we enjoy access to the entire world in the palm of our hands with our smartphones and tablets,
0:20.0	it is still so easy to take for granted the many
0:24.3	wonders that this world has to offer. Whether naturally formed or man-made, there are things that
0:31.8	when we see them, they leave us dumbstruck. And you will get a glimpse of many of those things in National Geographic's latest book,
0:42.1	Spectacle, Rare and Astonishing Photographs.
0:46.0	Through the eyes of some of the world's best photographers,
0:50.2	we bear witness to some of the magical things our world has to offer.
0:55.0	That includes humbling images of wildfires,
0:59.0	created by this week's guest Mark Thiessen.
1:02.0	In one jaw-dropping image, the fire surrounds him and the truck he's in
1:08.0	as they try to escape a fast-moving wildfire.
1:11.9	And Mark remembers exactly how he felt when he made that shot
1:16.0	and saw it appear on the back of his camera's LCD screen.
1:20.4	And I remember when I made that picture, I was, I piled down the motor drive
1:24.1	as we went through all this smoke.
1:25.4	I'm like, and then I'm looking at it.
1:30.3	And I'm like, wow.
1:32.3	And he's, the division supervisor has got a million things.
1:34.3	He's got two walkie-takis.
1:35.3	He's going, he's driving with his knee.
1:37.3	He's trying to coordinate all this stuff.
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