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Since today is my first day on the job
as a Visionary for Olympus (North
America) I am not sure of everything
that they have planned for me, but
I will be speaking at several large
photo conferences here in the USA
on their behalf and we are discuss-
ing other possibilities.
Will you use Olympus equipment for
bird photography and perhaps tell us
the difference between your DSLR
setup as against a mirrorless set up.
Absolutely yes and to best under-
stand my migration to Olympus,
please read this post. I actually
wrote it before being named to the
North American Visionary team...
http://www.photopodcasts.com/
more-gear/what-ive-learned-after-
six-months-of-shooting-almost-ex-
clusively-with-olympus-micro-four-
thirds-cameras
Tell us about your famous photo
“Cranes in the Fire Mist”
Thank you for mentioning it. But as
far as Cranes in the Fire Mist goes
- I can’t say anymore about it than
I have in this post I link to below - if
you really want background on that
image read the post and I am sure
you’ll have more than you need.
p h o to fo c u s . c o m / 2 0 1 0 / 1 1 / 1 0 /
cranes-in-the-fire-mist-revisited/
And you put up a post on Photofocus
on how photographers can try to get
their own shot similar to yours... you
generously share tips and advice, do
you think that more and more pros
are open to sharing to perhaps 20
years ago or am I wrong and pro
photographers have always been
open to sharing?
When it comes to pros sharing se-
crets I can’t spea k for anyone but me
and I don’t mind sharing everything.
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I have always been that way and tend
to associate with other pros who are
like-minded in that regard. My entire ap-
proach to photography is that it is some-
thing that has no scarcity. Someone
else shooting birds for a living doesn’t
diminish me. If they get a great shot that
moves people and makes them money
- that’s good for the birds and for the in-
dustry.
Talk to us about your podcasting pro-
jects, you were one of the pioneers be-
hind This Week in Photo and Photofocus,
do you have new podcast plans?
I did co-found TWIP with Alex Lindsey
and Ron Brinkmann - then I started Pho-
tofocus. I sold that a few years ago to my
business partner Rich Harrington. I still
make guest appearances on both net-
works which hopefully shows that all my
old podcasting pals and I still get along
just fine. I also regularly appeared on
hundreds of episodes on the This Week
In Tech TWIT network owned by my
friend Leo Laporte - I used to do shows
there related to Mac computers with a
slight emphasis on how they fit into a
photographer’s workflow.
My new shows all reside at
www.photopodcasts.com. I have been
working with Marco Larousse on pod-
casts for more than two years and he’s
a great podcaster and photographer.
We have three shows now (4th coming
soon) on the network every month. One
show deals with gear only, one show
deals with mirrorless cameras and the
other deals with inspiration - the new
show will be Q&A.
Finally Scott, where can our readers go
to discover more about your amazing
photography?
Thanks for the kind words. My basic port-
folio is at www.scottbourne.com - I post
on Instagram at bourne.scott - my Twit-
ter account is @scottbourne - my Face-
book is www.facebook.com/scottbourne
and my LinkedIn page is
www.linkedin.com/in/scottbourne