Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2020 i Outdoor Photographer

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After graduating from college, Tim Kemple moved into an old RV and wandered the world climbing rocks. Somewhere along the way, he picked up a camera, and years later, he can still climb 5.14 but is far more well-known for his iconic images of world-class athletes in wild places for clients such as Ram, Mitsubishi, Amtrak, Johnnie Walker and Wolverine. He also thrives helming light and fast film crews, informing an epic yet intimate, authentic style apparent in recent digital campaigns for Jaybird Sport, Merrell, The North Face and Apple. See more of Kemple’s work at kemplemedia.com. Klemen Premrl ice climbing inside the Skaftafell Glacier, southern Iceland. “Over the past five years, I’ve traveled to Iceland several times to document outdoor athletes pushing the limits of their sport in the otherworldly landscapes…

I’m sitting in my tent right now watching crimson sunbeams drift across pyramid-sized sand dunes. The smell of juniper and rabbit brush permeates the air, slightly diluted by my strong Kona coffee. Unzipping the tent door for a better view, I notice a lone hiker dwarfed by the massive orange dunes. The scale of this landscape reminds me of hiking in the Sahara Desert of Morocco. Except this isn’t North Africa. This is Great Sand Dunes National Park, located right in the middle of America and only a few hours from my house. This national park is a day’s drive or less for millions of Americans. After months of stay-at-home orders during the pandemic, outdoor photographers and adventurers are ready for some fresh air. Here’s the good news. America has…

As impressive as today’s interchangeable-lens cameras are, there are still some things they can’t do on their own, like soar through the sky, dive underwater, clip inconspicuously to your backpack or take a serious tumble. For a unique point of view on adventure sports, these specialty cameras make it easy to capture images that would be nerve-wracking or even impossible with a traditional camera. THE “GO ANYWHERE” CAMERA Underwater, attached to your handlebars or tethered to your life jacket, the Sony RX0 II is a 15-megapixel ultra-compact camera that can go pretty much anywhere you can. Though it’s incredibly small at 2.5x1.8x1.5 inches, it packs a 1-inch sensor that can capture stills—and 4K video with image stabilization—to microSD-format memory cards. The RX0 II is built to withstand the bumps and…

Few things in nature are more dramatic or unpredictable than lightning—or more dangerous. The more you understand lightning, how to anticipate it and what to do in its presence, the safer you’ll be and the more success you’ll have photographing lightning. The “Shocking” Truths About Lightning A lightning bolt is an atmospheric manifestation of the truism that opposites attract. In nature, we get a spark when two oppositely charged objects come in close proximity. For example, when you get shocked touching a doorknob, on a very small scale, you’ve been struck by lightning. In a thunderstorm, the up/down flow of atmospheric convection creates turbulence that knocks together airborne molecules, stripping their negatively charged electrons. Lighter, positively charged molecules are carried upward in the convection’s updrafts, while the heavier negatively charged…

The howling wind burned my skin. How could it be this cold this time of year in California? My team and I had just finished hauling our film equipment up a steep talus field to get a better angle of the climb we’d be shooting. The clouds passed overhead quickly, painting the canyon with shadows and highlights. We were on assignment shooting for a client of mine, Mad Rock. One of its athletes, Ethan Pringle, a California climber who has a proven track record of some of the world’s most difficult climbs, was attempting to be the first to do what would be one of the hardest granite sport climbs in the country, and it was my job to tell that story via motion and stills. The Eastern Sierra is…

You never realize how the pieces of your life are fitting together as it’s happening,” Zak Noyle observes in the introduction to “The Surfing Life” in this issue. “Then one day, you find yourself swimming through a world-class wave making photos of the world’s best surfers, and you take stock of how you got there.” For pros—and especially those who photograph sports like surfing—a passion for the subject is the foundation of success. Just as wildlife photographers who study animal behavior have an advantage, sports photographers with a personal connection to their subjects are able to anticipate the action and distinguish an exceptional moment from the mundane, and the resulting images display that knowledge. Immersed in the lifestyle of the sport, photographers like Noyle make images that the passerby would…

You never realize how the pieces of your life are fitting together as it’s happening. Then one day, you find yourself swimming through a world-class wave making photos of the world’s best surfers, and you take stock of how you got there. So many little things in my life, from where I was born to what my dad did for work to what sports I played in high school, led me to a career that seemed almost destined for me. Growing up in Hawaii, my entire childhood revolved around the water. When I was a kid, my parents would pack up towels, sunscreen and enough snacks to last us an entire day at the beach, and I'd play in the water until sunset, learning to navigate the currents and waves.…

The sliding glass door in my parents’ room began to rattle, bowing and flexing inward toward their bed. Champ, their elderly Australian Shepard and lover of all animals, let out an uncharacteristic growl that turned into a whimper as the window above her continued to bend and shake. My dad awoke and sleepily clicked on the porch light, which exposed the silhouette of an enormous standing bear, his face and paws pressed up against the window, which was putting forth a valiant effort of defending the house from outside invaders. Windows and doors, however, only succeed when they’re closed, and it was at that moment that my parents looked at each other, wide-eyed, remembering they had left every window in the living room open to help cool down the house…

Burrow Dustup “One of my favorite subjects to photograph are burrowing owlets,” says Barb D’Arpino. “They’re one of the easier owls to photograph because they’re diurnal, which means they hunt during the day and night, which allows for more opportunities than nocturnal owls. “I arrived at the site before sunrise, and the owls were beginning to stir. I sat on the ground to be at their eye level and stayed a respectful distance away so as not to disturb them. I was focused on this owlet when I noticed that mom was kicking sand and debris out of their burrow. I was surprised the owlet didn’t move out of the way, but I was happy to photograph the scene.” See more of Barb D’Arpino’s work on Instagram @barb_darpino.…