The Crazy Hazards of Being a National Geographic Photographer

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The Crazy Hazards of Being a National Geographic Photographer

2 "Stoned by Religious Group," 2 Different photographers attacked by the same panther on 2 different assignments, 1 "Acid Dripping Caves."

[Abel]

worm in the eye? wtf

[Tom]

Wes Skiles died last year shooting a story that ran on the cover. These men and women are getting illnesses that are pretty rare and often deadly.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Abel

worm in the eye? wtf

Don't google that one. Trust me.

[lfmerrell]

National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen

http://www.vagabondish.com/leopard-s...rvival-skills/

Via Neatorama, a story and video being conveyed by National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen in the context of his new photography book. Nicklen was in the Antarctic doing some filming and got “adopted” by a 12-foot leopard seal, which tried to feed him and teach him how to hunt. Twelve feet is a little over three and a half meters for our European audience, which is in turn “way too effing big to approach” for our rational non-crazy-photographer audience. Cute! Stupefyingly scary. But cute!

I slipped into the water, terrified of what might happen, and I swam up to this leopard seal. My legs were shaking and I had dry mouth. Right away she dropped the penguin. She came up to me and she opened her mouth… and her head is twice as wide as a grizzly bear’s head. She’s huge. She took my whole… camera inside her head and did this threat display… But then the most remarkable thing happen. She went off and got me a live penguin. She came up and she started to feed me a penguin. She kept letting these live penguins go and the penguin would shoot past me and she’d look disgusted as she go by me. She did this over and over.

And then I think she realized that I was this useless predator in her ocean, probably going to starve to death and I think she became quite panicked and she got me weak penguins then dead penguins …

[Nikonfan]

One photographer had frostbite 23 times? Once is all it would take for me and I guarantee that it would never happen again.