Wildfire Photography, with Mark Thiessen and Wine Country Camera

B&H Photography Podcast

Jill Waterman

Podcast, Photography, Arts, Visual Arts, Bh, Photo

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Hosted by B&H Photo, the 2018 OPTIC Conference for Outdoor and Travel Photography was a wonderful opportunity to speak with a range of great photographers, and we did just that. We sat down with a diverse mix of shooters, including Joyce Tenneson, Xyza Cruz Bacani, Keith Carter, and Sisse Brimberg. Over the course of the next few weeks, we will present these conversations, but today we start with National Geographic staff photographer Mark Thiessen, who, in addition to running the photo studio at NatGeo and shooting many stories for the magazine, has continued a twenty-year personal project on wildfires.

To know his subject better, to be safer, and to get closer to the action, Thiessen became a certified wildland firefighter and travels to active fires each year to photograph the fires, as well as the property destruction and human toll taken by these wildfires. We speak with Thiessen about his experiences, tools and techniques for photographing fires, and about his other work for National Geographic. Check out the B&H Photography Podcast landing page to see some of Thiessen's incredible photographs.

We also take a few minutes to catch up with Rod Clark, of Wine Country Camera. At OPTIC 2017, we spoke with Clark about the beautiful filter-holder system he developed, and we’ll find out how his company has grown this year, and what Wine Country Camera has brought to the market.

Guests: Mark Thiessen and Rod Clark

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0:00.0	You're listening to the B&H Photography Podcast.
0:04.2	For over 40 years, B&H has been the professional source for photography, video, audio, and more.
0:09.8	For your favorite gear, news, and reviews, visit us at bnh.com or download the B&H app to
0:15.6	your iPhone or Android device.
0:17.8	Now here's your host, Alan White.
0:21.0	Greetings and welcome to the B&H Photography Podcast.
0:24.1	On June 3rd and 4th of this year, we recorded at the 2018 Optic Outdoor Photo Travel Imaging
0:30.4	Conference hosted by B&H and sponsored by the likes of Sony, Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, Panasonic,
0:38.0	BenQ, Lyca, and others.
0:40.4	We were fortunate to speak with many wonderful photographers, including Joyce Tennyson, Keith
0:45.2	Carter, and Seth Reznik, and other notable shooters.
0:48.9	Over the course of the next few weeks, we plan on presenting a selection of these chats,
0:52.8	but today we offer a conversation with National Geographic's staff photographer, Mark Thiesin.
0:58.6	Mark is without a doubt a master of many disciplines.
1:01.2	He directs the National Geographic's Photo Studio and has created images for all of Nat Geo's
1:06.4	publications.
1:07.8	For the Mother Ship magazine, he has completed stories on Peruvian mummies, the Mariana
1:12.6	Trinch, baseball and America, and nanotechnology, but perhaps his best known story, is the one
1:19.0	he did on Russian smoke jumpers as part of a long-term personal project on wildfires.
1:25.0	For this project, Mark even became a certified wildlife firefighter, and for 20 years, he
1:30.0	has been spending his summers with the men and women who fight forest fires around the
1:34.0	world and has captured incredibly dramatic images.
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