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Adventure as a Photographer
Not everyone has the talent, but there are some people that see the world differently through a camera lens. There are people who are willing to jump into dangerous situations, or be an invisible fly on the wall and photograph nature and people in action. People like Robert Pelton who navigate areas of conflict and photograph for publications like National Geographic and Discovery. He's covered war, piracy, Land Rover adventure races and a myriad of others. He was kidnapped, taken hostage and released, and missed an assassination attempt on his person.
Out of all of this, he licensed and sold his content to companies like Microsoft, Discovery television, ABC News and garnered a two-book deal with Random House. He built a career out of his unique style of reporting and filmmaking; taking what he loves and turning it into a career. His autobiography is titled "The Adventurist". He's even partnered with a travel agency to book trips for adventurers to forbidden and dangerous parts of the world. Pelton has helped penetrate misunderstood and underdeveloped parts of the world and helped bring tourism to those places. He believes tourism represents a message of hope to people in developing regions affected by war.
Not all photographs are easy to look at. Some contain the harsh truth about war and areas of the world where humans fight to have the basic necessities like food and clean water. But they can be very inspiring for an author's imagination and spawn great stories of action and adventure. So if you're not inclined to leave your laptop and dodge bullets from an AK47, perhaps photographs can be your adventure inspiration.
This month's question: What types of adventures are on your "bucket list"?
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Excerpt: Risa walked quickly and smiled up at the sunny sky, feeling the gentle breeze on her face. But when she was far enough away, the man started walking towards the direction she was headed. He brought one hand into his jacket and pulled out a camera.
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This month's question: What types of adventures are on your "bucket list"?
Last month's question: What are some of your favorite historical adventures?
jlbane replied: Having grown up in NY State I find Revolutionary War history very interesting and plan someday to write my own swashbucking adventure set during those days. I'm a fan of stories like Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Alexander Dumas' Three Musketeers and others like Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood. More recent novels that I have enjoyed are Arturo Pérez-Reverte's Captain Alatriste and Bernard Conrwell's Lords of the North.
BIG BAD WOLF is hopping  responded: My favorite historical adventures would be Westerns. Lone gunman coming in to clean up the town..... shootout.....
Of course, the greatest adventure might be the battle for the fate of the universe. For the Horde! For the Swarm! For the glory!
PSanta-I'm ba-ack! said: Humboldt sounds like a real life Indiana Jones. That illustrates one of my favorite inspirations; to take larger than life historical figures like William Marshal, Carlos Hathcock, or Hildegard of Bingen and write stories about their true life adventures. Also, in reading history you constantly find extraordinary events that happen to ordinary people. String a few of these together in front of an authentic historical backdrop and you can create an interesting piece of historical fiction.
scribbler answered: Oh man! I love history so I have quite a few.
First my favourite botanist is Gregor Mendel, the monk who discovered genes, and explained how natural selection works. The thing is, no one knew about his work until way after he died. Even Darwin didn't know about his work, which honestly would have made The Origin of Species an even more solid book!
My other favourite historical figure is King Zog. Look him up he is amazing. He shot back at some would be assassins and carried suitcases full of gold when he was exiled. He also smoked 100 perfumed cigars a day. WILD!
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