Episode 63: Today I sit down with professional nature photographer, Alyce Bender, to chat about:

Early childhood experiences that led to her passion for photography as a kid
How certain skills she learned in the military have helped her with leading photography tours and how photography served as a creative outlet from the rigors of duty
Why she continues to visit Japan for photography after having lived there for two years
How living a nomadic, RV-based life for about a year helped launch her photography career
Tips for traveling and doing photography alone
Her approach to planning photography trips around the world and how she quickly immerses herself in a new landscape
An interesting story about how a Google algorithm rabbit hole led her to a conservation project about Lesser prairie chickens
How being a better naturalist will improve your nature and wildlife photography
How she approaches wildlife compositions and what her “why” is for creating photographs of wildlife
The story behind her first wild wolf encounter
And a whole lot more!

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Website: http://www.abenderphotography.com/

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Bender’s wild wolf encounter

Journal of Wildlife Photography

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