Whitney Johnson is the Director of Visual and Immersive Experiences at National Geographic.
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No photographer was injured while taking these photos.
This feat is due, in part, to Tom O’Brien. This imaginative artist designs things like the camera trap used to immortalize wolves devouring musk carcass in the Canadian Arctic. At National Geographic headquarters, O’Brien nibbled on part of the trap for testing, anticipating being inspected by a hungry predator.
And the National Geographic It was a James Bond movie, Tom will be Q, designer of British Secret Service tools. The only difference is that Tom equips photographers so that we can enjoy the extraordinary uniqueness of our planet.
“If you have a dream about a camera, he can probably make it happen,” Peter Gwen says of Tom’s ambitions on this week’s episode of the podcast. Heard on National Geographic (behind the scene National Geographic). And he’s right. For over 100 years, engineers have designed and manufactured custom cameras and other visual storytelling equipment for us.
“I don’t like talking about these ideas, but I’m going to share one anyway, just for you,” Tom wrote when I asked him what made him so vigilant. He tells me that he dreams of building a remote-controlled amphibious imaging platform that photographers can control in order to get up close to dangerous or even nervous animals in wet areas or other places where remote-controlled vehicles cannot be navigated.
“Keep it a secret as to how you plan to do it, so you can unleash your imagination,” he adds.
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