Paul Souders | WorldFoto: 2014

Monday, January 27, 2014

Published Work - Wild Planet Photo Magazine

Keith Wilson, editor at Wild Planet Photo Magazine, showed considerable patience and forbearance waiting for me to come up with a list of seven “Wild Wonders” of the natural world. I think the hardest part was narrowing my list down to only seven favorite places.

For the record, here's my list in no particular order:

1. Cuverville Island, Antarctica - Leopard Seals

2. Spitsbergen Island - Polar Bears

3. Galapagos Islands - Darwin’s Playground

4. Churchill, Manitoba, Canada - Beluga Whales

5. Ndutu Plains, Tanzania

6. Snow Hill Island - Emperor Penguins

7. Southeast Alaska - Humpback Whales

INTRODUCTION

For much of my adult life, I have been lucky enough to get paid doing the things I love most. My work as a itinerant travel and wildlife photographer has sent me around the world and across all seven continents.

Over the last two decades, I have had ample opportunity to appreciate the absurdities of life on the road, having once spent 27 memorable hours during my first trip to Kenya digging a bogged safari truck out using only a sauce pan. In addition to my work in Africa, I have traveled extensively in Alaska, Australia, Antarctica and Asia.

I hope to work my way through the rest of the alphabet in a timely fashion.

Each year, I spend five or six months on the road. Along the way, I try to make time to scribble something in my notebooks. More often than not, it’s about whatever mishap has befallen me on any particular day. This collection offers a random sample from those journals, notebooks and emails.