Tim Wright // Yacht Photographer
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
#81. Andy sits down with yachting photographer Tim Wright last week at the ARC finish in Saint Lucia. Tim has been photographing the ARC finish since 2000, and has been a professional photographer since the early 1990s.
He sailed, single-handed, in the first ARC in 1986 on a 29-footer, and never went home. After a lightbulb idea to photograph a race in Bequia, he took the success of that and expanded on it to create what he calls an 'itinerant photography lifestyle,' whereby he sails his boat up and down the Caribbean taking photos of sailing events.
We talk about his career ARC and how he 'made' it in photography and created one heck of a lifestyle job. See all of Tim's work on photoaction.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Viner's live from Sweden. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. |
| 0:07.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello, hello, and welcome back to 59 degrees north. |
| 0:12.5 | Conversations with Sailors. |
| 0:14.7 | I am your host, Andy Schell. |
| 0:17.1 | Happy Christmas, happy holidays, happy cold weather for Mia and I. |
| 0:21.0 | We just got back from St. Lucia last night and are back at our house in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm recording this on a Monday. |
| 0:28.1 | This episode will come out tomorrow on Tuesday. |
| 0:31.6 | Before I get into it, I want to thank someone who probably isn't listening to this, |
| 0:36.2 | but you'll notice in the last episode |
| 0:38.3 | in this one, I started out by asking the guests to describe the setting that they're in. |
| 0:43.2 | And I got that idea from Christophir Triumph, who is a Swedish host of the show Varvet. |
| 0:50.9 | Previously had a show called Varvitt, which was entirely in Swedish. |
| 0:56.8 | Now he's got Varvet International, |
| 1:03.3 | interviews some comedians and some people in the entertainment business, mostly, from L.A. in English. And I really like his interview style. So I've borrowed a few ideas from him, |
| 1:08.7 | and I want to publicly thank him for that and let everyone know that |
| 1:12.6 | if you need a new podcast, check out Varvet. It's very interesting, especially Varvet International. |
| 1:18.6 | That's VARVET. So thanks for the inspiration. This episode is another inspiring one. This is |
| 1:27.1 | Tim Wright. He has been the photographer for the |
| 1:29.9 | arc rally since the year 2000. Not really the official event photographer, but rather he sits |
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