Nat Geo

For years my father subscribed to National Geographic magazine and I still have a stack of old issues on my bookshelf culled from his collection. In the pre-cable TV days, before there was a Discovery channel or History channel or for that matter a Nat Geo channel, National Geographic magazine offered a window on the world unavailable elsewhere. Shooters for the magazine were the photographic worlds equivalent of Indiana Jones. Although it wasn't relics for a museum collection that they sought out, but rather photographs of exotic locales, people and things. Unless you have a globe trotting adventure planned in the near future, there is an available alternative - seeking out and shooting the interesting flora and fauna that may exist in your own backyard. You never know what may be lurking out there.