The Art of Adventure Photography
By Bruce Percy
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Podcast Description
The art of travel landscape photography from around the world. Follow Bruce Percy on his journeys photographing wild landscapes and the cultures that inhabit them.
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| 1 | VideoLofoten Islands Podcast | The Lofoten islands gave me a chance to stare back at winter, which had just gone for another year back home in Scotland. Being here, was like reversing time a few months and revisit winter for a second time. This time, as a visitor. | 25 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoLalibela Podcast | Situated in the northern foothills of Ethiopia, lies Lalibela, an important spiritual mecca for orthodox christians. Please click on the image to play the podcast I came here in September of this year to photograph the people in the context of the UNESCO rock hewn churches. Unbeknown to me at the time, I was on a pilgrimage of my own. Looking back now, I can see that my entire photographic 'career' has been that - a journey and as with everything in life, we only truly understand how far we've come, by looking back. Everything up ahead of us, is yet to be discovered. This will be my last podcast for a while. They're very time-consuming to do, even though I do find them very enjoyable. But the problem is gathering enough new material to make one with. Lalibela was the first set of new photographs I made this year. I do have a trip planned to go to Norway in March 2011 to (hopefully) shoot the Aurora and also photograph the beautiful fishing town of A. Who knows what this may bring in terms of a future podcast, but until then, I'd just like to let you know that I intend to make podcasts in future, but only when I have new material and when the time is right to do so. | 22 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoEigg Podcast | I've just had some spare time to put together a little podcast about the Isle of Eigg - you will need a decent pair of speakers to enjoy this. Please click on the image to play the podcast I have had some very kind permission by Macmaster #38; Hay to use the title track of their album 'Reason #38; Love' for this podcast, so if nbsp;you enjoy the music, please do give their album a listen at myspace at :www.myspace.com/macmasterhay Macmaster #38; Hay tell me their album 'Reason #38; Love' is available from www.codamusic.co.uk if you would like to buy a copy - which I can recommend very much. I find the music very appropriate for this podcast. I'd been thinking for a while that if I were to do the isle of Eigg justice, it would be great to use some Scottish music for it and I feel I've found the perfect partner. The sea sounds were recorded on Laig bay while I was making photographs earlier this year (April) and Adam - you'll know just the very moment I made the recording as you were there at the time. So I do hope you enjoy this podcast. I get such a buzz out of putting them together. They allow me to reflect on my own photographic-journey, where I've been, where I'm at and where I'm perhaps going. Yep, I'm a hippy at heart really. | 15 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoAssynt : Podcast | Assynt is a special place, situated in the far north west of Scotland. It's not so well known as places like Glencoe, but I think that's more to do with Glencoe's accessibility. While Glencoe has a major trunk road going right through it, Assynt is tucked away from most people and certainly, the photographic press don't cover it much, if at all. Which is a blessing as well as a burden. A blessing because it's not overrun with photographers and a burden, because it takes more effort to convince people to come here! Please click on the image to play the podcast This podcast deals with the subject of isolation. Perhaps the biggest thing that bothers me while I'm away making images. I sometimes find myself feeling too much on my own and in this podcast, I try to ask some questions: is it a wild landscape that makes us feel isolated, or does the landscape more or less amplify our own feelings and reflect them back to us? I've been pumping out the podcasts lately. I'm sorry for the sporadic publication of these. It takes quite some time to put them together.... but they are a labour of love on my part. I often find I can get round to doing them when I feel inspired to do so. With any 'art', it can't be rushed, and conversely, you have to strike when the iron is hot (take action when you're feeling creative). I've been feeling creative this past few weeks. | 2 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoIndia’s People Podcast | India was captivating in many ways. In this podcast, I try to convey how overpowering India's culture is and how it affected my approach to portraiture photography. Please click on the image to play the podcast Now that I've had some time to reflect on my trip to India and to re-charge my batteries, I'd love to go back. I think we need something to challenge us, to surprise us from time to time and in that respect, India succeeds hands down. I'm really quite surprised to discover that it's taken me just over a year to get round to putting this little podcast together. I think there was a lot going on for me last year and a lot of travel. It was so satisfying going back to the audio recordings I made whilst in India and listening to them with fresh ears. It took me right back. I'm hoping to record more ambient sound for future podcasts..... it's a much more enriching experience to have sound as well as photos. Perhaps even video at some point, but I feel that involves quite a bit of a leap in technique. For the time being, I'm just going to stick with iMovie for my basic slideshows and an Audio recorder (Sony PCM-D50 which is great by the way) and of course, my photography for the substance to my podcasts. | 23 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoPodcast : Harris & Lewis | Now available under the podcast section of my web site, I've a new podcast about Harris #38; Lewis. Confusingly, Harris and Lewis are the same island. The south part is called Harris while the north part is called Lewis. Please click on the image to play the podcast I've been twice now - first in May 2009 and then back in November 2009. It's an hypnotic place and the light last November was stunning. Dramatic, changeable and moody. I hope to get back to putting some new podcasts together. I'd like to discuss Assynt and Skye too, perhaps talking about the efforts that I go into making a trip and staying out there for a concentrated time. Until then, I hope you enjoy this little podcast! | 11 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoNepal, Photographic Karma | Nepal allowed me time to consider the impact of my approaches to photography - perhaps best described as my photographic-karma! Please click on the image to play the podcast This podcast covers my trip to the Kathmandu valley in Nepal earlier this year. I recorded a lot of audio source material while I was there. Hope you enjoy it. | 27 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoPodcast : India’s Taj Mahal | I've not even begun to work on my Indian images yet. But along while back, sometime in February when I got home, I started to collate all the usable images from my visits to the Taj Mahal. Please click on the image to play the podcast It's quite an incredible landmark and it didn't disappoint me. Photographically however, I was restricted : they won't let you in with a tripod or any recording devices. Still, I did manage to smuggle an audio recorder past the entrance gates. So in this podcast, you can hear ambience from the surrounding gardens. It's hard for me to explain, but it was just so calming to be there, despite the fact that I was there with 1000 other people at 6am in terrible smog. My throat and lungs ached after spending a couple of hours there. So bad was the pollution. However, the Taj Mahal is simply one of the most beautiful buildings I've ever seen. It did not disappoint. I went perhaps three or four times, and the last time was enough for me. Going in the evening is the worst because everyone, and I mean everyone, is there. It was like Disney Land. Terrible. It's also a shame that the gardeners are onto touting the tourists too. After spending weeks being harassed by threatening touts, I thought I was going to get some peace in the gardens. So I was pretty frustrated when I had to tell the gardeners to leave me alone in peace. I think the Taj Mahal has to be enjoyed in silence, with time to reflect, it's a beautiful special place, more so because it is a reprieve from the madness of India. | 25 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoBolivian Altiplano Podcast | I had no idea I was going to be so taken with this landscape. The Bolivian Altiplano brings together a vast expanse of varied geological features under unusual climatic conditions. For one thing, the altitude of the Altiplano averages around 4000 meters or 12,000 feet. The air is thin here and for no reason I can fathom, this seemed to guarantee stunning light each sunrise and sunset. Please click on the image to play the podcast Because of this, I felt that I pushed my tour guide and driver to their limits as we navigated the vast Salar de Uyuni landscape before sunrise and long after dusk. With scarcely defined roads, more a slight suggestion, a faint scar on the desert like landscape, it was hard for me to watch as my driver sped through the darkness with no visible signposts as to where we were, or where we were going. And we sped on, often to some intangible destination that my driver knew about. But I was suffering hard. A mixture of slight Altitude symptoms and running around too much, too soon after my ascent onto the altiplano had left me with a thumping headache and slight dizziness - symptoms of mountain sickness. I felt overawed by the experience. Coupled with my suffering, everything regarding landscape photography seemed inverted. The ground was often brighter than the sky and the sunsets proved to be more impressive than the wondrous sunrises. I was never really just sure how to meter the landscapes for the film I was using. This is not what Irsquo;ve come to expect from most of the landscapes Irsquo;ve photographed over the years. Being so high up, Iacute;d expected to feel cold, yet strangely I didnrsquo;t - even though I got caught out. Like a mouth that has gone numb and un-cooperative after a visit to the dentist, so I found my hands unable to operate my camera after being outside for more than half an hour in the dawn light. As for my most lasting impression, well I must say that I tried one day to walk on the vast salt plain for as long as I could with my eyes completely closed. It didnrsquo;t take long for my mind to concoct imaginary obstacles in my path and I had to fight my instincts, which kept screaming at me to open my eyes. When I did, I was greeted with the unchanged, vast emptiness of the Salar and a feeling that I had been tricked. By my own mind of course. Perhaps this was the Bolivian Altiplanos parting gift to me - a lesson that most limitations in my life come from within rather than from without. | 22 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoEaster Island | I lost all sense of context whilst on Easter Island. In this podcast, I explain how easy it is to lose your point of reference in a new land. In this case, I found that after a few days on Easter Island, I felt like I'd always been there. Home felt like it had never existed. I sometimes find I lose all sense of context when I'm somewhere remote, making photographs. I'm just not sure if that's a good thing or not. Please click on the image to play the podcast #160; | 3 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
A very professional job...
Excellent first podcast. Looking forward to the next one!
engaging work
Excellent, antmospheric. Not just the slide-show, but the narration and music make for a superb blend. I'd thoroughly recommend his website, particularly the blog which I enjoyed reading.
Inspiring podcast
Bruce is a top class landscape photog but this podcast is a bit more than a showcase for his work. The combination of images, music, calming scots voice and spiritual thoughts are compelling and inspiring.
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