Free Food! (Or Why We Go Into Journalism?)
It’s the dream assignment on a bad day. You’re on your fourth shoot and there it is, someone offering you food. Some cheese, maybe half a tuna sandwich on a croissant … or, if you shoot for National Geographic, maybe it’s a … live penguin?
This was also features in one of the TedTalks installments with National Geographic Photo Director David Griffin, which is also worth a view. The seal story is just on of the examples Griffin uses to illustrate great story-telling with pictures. Watch if you get a chance. 14 minutes well spent:
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http://www.ted.com/talks/david_griffin_on_how_photography_connects.html