National Geographic Photo contest

Incredible

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as a photographer one of my life long goals is to get a shot published in national geographic.
 
I've been to a lecture given by a photographer who had a cover shot and a few other published images. Quite the method to produce the images to say the least
 
^ when i was little and people asked me what i wanted to be, i guess i always said i wanted to be a National Geographic photographer. And the early 90's National Geographic kids movies with "spin" were the shiit
 
For those interested the method described by the photographer was in some sense, this. You strive to find a subject, something profoundly interesting, set the exposure and just wait. The inner photographer in yourself will know when the shot is right. It's a lot of waiting. Waiting for everything to come into place. That flag to wave in the right direction, that pedestrian to look just the right way, the light to fall on the subject perfectly
. It was a very "chi" method if you will, but also very unsuccessful if you're subject isn't interesting.
The guys name was Sam Abell.This is some of the work he showed.
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Ex. the first image was a collection of pears (obviously). He literally sat in his hotel room in Russia, taking an image of those ever hour or two. He was looking at, The pedestrians (going to work and such), the light, location of the curtain, the crop on the image, how many pears he wanted showing. The list actually goes on.
if this is too vague just say so. i'll see if i can remember anything else he said
 
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