Archive for ‘Media’

Justin Black Video Interview by PhotographyTalk.com

Recently, Alex Schult of PhotographyTalk.com sat down with Visionary Wild’s Justin Black – virtually, via Skype – for an interview recorded for their Success Interviews series, revealing the creative inspiration and path to success of noted photographers working today. Click here to watch the full 39-minute interview.

Tools and Techniques for Creating Fine Prints

March 03, 2013 11:58 PM
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Our friends at Hunt’s Photo Video and Ilford are sponsoring a free webinar on fine print making, Join the Live Video Broadcast on March 29, 2013 at 1:00pm EDT What are the aspects and qualities that make for a Gallery-Quality Fine Art Print? Exacting color, smooth tonal transitions, a well-balanced contrast range and the best […]

Inside a Visionary Wild Workshop

July 07, 2012 04:49 PM
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In January 2012, photographers Jack Dykinga, John Shaw, and Justin Black collaborated on our first Vision Workshops at Santa Catalina State Park in Oro Valley, Arizona. Cinematographer Austin Andrews joined the group for a few field sessions in an attempt to capture the experience. Jack, John, and Justin are returning to Santa Catalina State Park […]

Daniel Beltrá wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award at London gala

October 10, 2011 12:00 PM
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At a gala event in London sponsored by Veolia Environnement, Visionary Wild instructor Daniel Beltrá has won the 2011 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award for his image Still Life in Oil, a striking shot of eight brown pelicans rescued from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in June 2010. Beltrá […]

Photographing with Purpose

October 10, 2011 04:50 PM
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The November 2011 issue of Outdoor Photographer magazine features an article by Justin Black about ways to add greater meaning and purpose to your photography. You can read the full text and see the accompanying photos here: Photographing with Purpose by Justin Black

Visionary Wild instructor Chris Linder releases new book: Science on Ice!

October 10, 2011 12:41 AM
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“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised,” wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that’s how most of us still imagine polar expeditions: stolid men with ice riming their beards drawing sledges and […]

Jack Dykinga Interview Slideshow

September 09, 2011 06:45 PM
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Jack Dykinga on Mark Godfrey Selects Nature Conservancy Director of Photography Mark Godfrey recently interviewed Visionary Wild instructor Jack Dykinga for this multimedia slideshow featuring some of Jack’s best work.

On Assignment: The Dragon Run

July 07, 2011 08:44 PM
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by Justin Black   The Dragon rippled as I slid the kayak out into the swamp’s caramel-brown water. The still quiet of pre-dawn was broken only by the song of a prothonotary warbler, a croaking bullfrog, the sudden splash of a jumping sunfish. Gliding along on the glassy surface past lush swamp plants – arrow […]

Great Bear Rainforest featured in ISLANDS and FORBES magazines

May 05, 2011 01:50 PM
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King Pacific Lodge, our basecamp for Visionary Wild’s innaugural expedition, September 5-12, 2011, is profiled in two recent articles in Islands and Forbes magazines. For more information about this special expedition to the Great Bear Rainforest with photographers Jack Dykinga and Daniel Beltrá, click here. ISLANDS, May 2011 FORBES, May 2011