Bruce Dale: Planning for the Unplanned (Part 1)

Did you read National Geographic magazine as a kid in your bedroom, dreaming about all those faraway places? The only difference is that some end up spending thirty years travelling the world and photographing those very places—all because they never stopped exploring 🌍📸

In this first part of my conversation with former National Geographic staff photographer Bruce Dale, we travel back to his childhood in Ohio and follow the unexpected road that took him from riding freight trains and newspaper photography into the platinum years of National Geographic—a time when photographers had the freedom, resources, and support to turn even the wildest ideas into remarkable pictures…and if the equipment needed to take a photograph didn’t exist... they simply built it.

Of course, you’ll also hear already some amazing stories behind Bruce’s most memorable photographs in this first part—from bathing in the Ozarks to a heart transplant or freezing a bullet in mid-air. And we are only getting started. Next week, Bruce returns with more behind-the-scenes stories, wild encounters, unusual inventions, and a photograph that has travelled more than 15 billion miles from Earth... and counting. 🚀

More than anything, this is a conversation about curiosity, good ideas, and how a childhood dream can take you much further than you ever planned.

☕ Grab a coffee, open your world map, and enjoy Part One of my conversation with the amazing Bruce Dale.

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