FEATURING WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER MICHELLE VALBERG

Today's guest is the celebrated Canadian wildlife photographer Michelle Valberg, who shares stories of her photographic adventures at the two poles and the incredible animals she observes as she creates emotional imagery that has the power to make viewers feel. From the mailbag on today's show, how introversion affects what you photograph, favourite places in the world to MAKE those pictures and how being devoured by forest has you feel, making your own book or zine in 2024, how your experiences as a child can influence your photography as an adult plus there is news of a second retreat week in Scotland. It is the first Friday of the month, so it’s assignment week, and this year, all our challenges are one-word photographic assignments.

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Michelle Valberg, is a photographer in residence with and for Canadian Geographic and a member of the Order of Canada. Her philanthropic pursuits include Project North, and as a portrait photographer, Michelle photographed Linda Morin, the first woman in the world to go topless on the front cover of a book after a double mastectomy. She talks today about the Coastal Wolf of Canada, the Great Bear Rainforest, Black squirrel, ‘Spirit Bear’, and Caspian tern.

Jill Heinerth is a Canadian cave diver and underwater explorer. She has made TV series for the National Geographic Channel and the BBC, consulted on movies for directors including James Cameron, written several books and produced documentaries including We Are Water and Ben's Vortex, about the disappearance of cave diver Ben McDaniel.

Blue Peter is the oldest-running children’s television show in the World, a UK magazine show. In this excerpt from the show, legendary presenter John Noakes climbs to the top of Nelson’s Column in London’s Trafalgar Square minus safety harness, ideal footwear and a helmet!

André Grote’s favourite photographic location in Denmark, Rudbjerg Knude Fyr.

Palladianism in England, and how Palladian architecture was seen around the World.

Marissa Roth is a photojournalist who has appeared on a few of our podcasts, and ‘we’ think responsible for the first mention of using a camera as a sketchbook of life.

The photography of Mali Davies, a regular contributor to the podcasts, who experiments with many genres of photography, including being in his beloved landscape photographing trees.

Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge protects more than 48000 acres of southern New Jersey coastal habitats and is an 8-mile self-guided tour of saltwater marsh, freshwater habitat, and upland forest, perfect for wildlife and landscape photography.

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Sketchbook images from today’s photowalk.

VIDEO LIBRARY

The following videos/subjects are referenced within today’s show.

Great Sea by Hans Johnson is today’s playout song on the show. This is the official video.

The iconic clip from 28 Days Later, starring Cillian Murphy as a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus has caused the breakdown of society. This scene was filmed in London. To depict locations as desolate, the film crew closed off sections of street for minutes at a time, usually early morning before sunrise on Sundays and would have typically around 45 minutes after dawn, to shoot the locations devoid of traffic and members of the public, to minimise disruption. Portions of the film were shot on a Canon XL1 digital video (DV) camera - small enough to move quickly with.

Martin’s YouTube channel shared on the show today. Why Wednesday? I’m not working on Wednesdays - so that can be a creative day with a camera or iphone. So "Wednesday Through the Lens" it is as that is the day for fresh air, photos and fun.

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