Earlier this week I was a guest on the FRAMES Photography Podcast, where I spoke with host W. Scott Olsen for a full hour. FRAMES is a quarterly printed photography magazine and their interviews tend to go a little deeper than most, so we had plenty of room to wander.
We talked about everything from the first analog camera I got as a kid and the Sigur Rós music DVD that first made me want to see Iceland, to photographing active eruptions, why I like my drone video to look more like moving photographs than moving cameras, and the lessons I’ve learned while leading photography workshops in Iceland, Greenland and Antarctica.
Scott also got the story of an eruption I photographed in heavy rain, where the crater had completely disappeared behind steam when you looked at it from the ground and almost everyone else had packed up and gone home. We spoke about why combining an eruption with the northern lights is much harder than it looks, and why on my puffin photo workshops we sit down every morning to look at three of everyone’s best images and three of their worst, which teaches far more than anything I could explain out on the cliffs.
I enjoyed this chat with Scott a lot, as we spent as much time on why a photograph works as on where it was taken. As I said to him during the episode, you’ll photograph something amazing, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ve taken an amazing photograph. I hope you enjoy our conversation!
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