Life as a photographer for an environmental magazine can be legitimately exciting.
I am able to travel to amazing locations and see some of the most amazing things on the planet.
It also means that I have seen some of the worst that the world has to offer; There are parts of the world that are barely hanging on and people live with conditions that are simply horrible, here in the United States, several of us just suppose that the rest of the world is like our lives, this is entirely not the case. As I rest in my air conditioned house going over my current photos from my last trip I can’t help but feel like I live like a king. On my most recent assignment I travelled to South America to cover the changes that are happening there. The impact that Global warming is having there is causing storms and flooding like they have never experienced before. They already went struggle with lack of fresh water and electricity and this is making matters worse, and i can’t even take looking at the photos of what those people are going through. I would love to be in a position to supply the basics to people in regions like that. Even the ability to have some sort of temperature control during the sweltering sizzling days would be a welcomed relief, and a cool arena to kneel their heads at night would feel like a getaway resort to them. I will never again take for granted my Heating in addition to A/C system and the ability to control the temperature in my home.