It's August 31st, 2009, and this is the Candid Frame.

Today's guest is Nevada Weir, who besides having the coolest name of any photographer I know,

is an accomplished and successful travel

photographer whose work has regularly appeared in National Geographic, outside in Geo-magisines,

as well as numerous books. She's traveled all over the world, including Southeast Asia,

India, China, Nepal, and South America. For over 25 years, she's lived the life of the travel photographer that many dream and aspire to.

But beyond the exotic travel and beautiful photographs is a lot of hard work.

You don't get to enjoy a career like hers without knowing a lot more than just how to work her camera,

which is why I'm excited about having her as a guest. So sit back and enjoy our conversation with Nevada Weir.

Well, Nevada, welcome to the Candid Frame. It's a pleasure and an honor to have you on the show.

Let's start off with your early history.

I know you started photography in your late 20s,

and you started off with a large format camera shooting black and white film.

And I'm wondering, what do you feel that allowed you to do in terms of your own photographic

life as opposed to having started off, say, using a 35-millimeter camera?

Well, you're right. Actually, I fell in love with this wooden Deerdorf camera and partly I think I fell in love

with the myth of, you know, standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon with this cape over my head.

And actually, I started with color film large format, which I realized was really over my head, too

difficult. And so I went down to black and white because i could manage

a black and white dark room and you know i think in general uh i only worked with the the uh large

format maybe for about a year because i realized pretty quickly it was a was a bad backpacking

camera especially the tripods in those days.

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