The traveling, seeing places not known to many eyes, and taking award winning pictures are all in a days work of being a National Geographic photographer. So, it begs the question: is it the best job in the world or the one of the toughest?
Sure, traveling millions of miles around the world yearly sounds like a great time, but the photographers risk their lives almost every day in getting close-up shots of dangerous animals or people that could easily attack them.
The job can be disgusting. One day they could have insects covering them as they shoot pictures. The next day they could be walking through swampy waters and not knowing what is under their bare feet, or have worms tunnel themselves into their skin and climb around.
These photographers are trained to take pictures that can tell a great story without any words behind it. Sometimes that has to be a very intimate shot and that territory is normally as close-up as possible. One National Geographic photographer said, "Without intimacy you cannot get the pictures that people from the magazine are used to seeing."
The job is great for those who can handle it. But, it brings a lot of lonely times because they are normally alone when they work and it can be tiring traveling so many miles a year.
There is a discrepancy about their work: it is both one of the most rewarding and interesting jobs that anyone could have, but on the other hand, there are many reasons why it would be the toughest.
More ways to make their work tough is finding different angles to shoot from both bird's eye view and ant's eye view, close-ups, and dynamic shots of action and movement (most of their subjects are moving around). As aforementioned the job is very dangerous, but they worry more about trying to get authorization to do a shoot than they do in actually taking the pictures.
The job is simply not for everyone, but it is one of the more interesting opportunities out there. Danger is always lurking, but that does not phase the photographers at National Geographic because that is what they bleed for and that is why the magazine consistently has some of the greatest pictures ever taken.
Look at some pictures on the their website here: National Geographic
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