Joe McNally
Joe McNally
Joe McNallyis an American photographer who has been shooting for the National Geographic Society since 1987...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth27 July 1952
CountryUnited States of America
fan places trying unusual
I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.
basement darkroom eliminated immediacy instant intense love notion replaced technology
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
closed digital good people pictures seasoning shop technology thrown wide
Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.
attached battered giant lens looked rattled truck view
Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.
crank faint
Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
hands shooting lists
When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.
moving doors feet
The camera’s not a camera, really. It’s an open door we need to walk through. It’s up to us to keep moving our feet.
lunch california google
Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.
memories
To me, pictures are about memory.
photography light editors
John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.
photography views together
If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.
book years vampire
Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while taking the reader through a brief tour of vampire lore and mythology. This is a book I'd recommend to anybody with an interest in the author or vampires. The parts which deal with vampires are obviously based on years of substantial research and personal experience.
thinking want causes
I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.
photography journey careers
A career in photography is a journey without a destination.