Something wonderful has happened in photography: ordinary people can now photograph the night sky and the Milky Way. Here are tips from Jim Richardson for beginning your exploration of photographing the night sky, equipment you'll need and ideas for making great pictures.
Posted on November 17, 2023
Jim Richardson
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The Milky Way is spectacular when seen under truly dark skies. But light pollution is destroying our night skies. Photographer Jim Richardson describes the problem and his coverage for National Geographic magazine, detailing both the wonders of the night and the ways night lighting is obliterating this shared humane heritage.
Posted on November 15, 2023
Jim Richardson
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Jim says he’s having a case of Dig Deprivation. It’s a malady of his own invention, to be honest, describing a particular from of longing that involves travel to Scotland (of course.) It infects, he says, "only people who have traveled to Orkney, those Scottish islands in the North Sea, in July and August during an archeological dig there. The cure is in just one place, exactly 4,129 miles from where I sit.”
Jim describes summer days at the Ness of Brodgar, a Neolithic dig site he covered for National Geographic and which (evidently) really got under his skin. Read on to discover the deep attraction of poking into the lives of people now gone for 5,000 years and the thrill of hanging around with nerdy, gregarious archeologists bent on digging up all the poop. Indiana Jones should have had it so good.
Posted on July 08, 2021
Jim Richardson
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Having watched Jim's career up close for 40+ years, I never thought of Jim as a conservation photographer per se. He does not focus on wildlife, for example. I tell people that Jim is photographer of issues and landscapes. He visually communicates scientific concepts, as well as reasons places look the way they do. As I mentally flip through the 40+ stories Jim has photographed for National Geographic Magazine since 1986, I recall
Posted on April 16, 2019
Kathy Richardson
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Every year has its surprises in my world of photography, and that’s the way it’s been for the last 35 years with National Geographic. This year will see a couple of trips back to Scotland, several print shows, lectures across the country and some workshop teaching. I'll also be working
Posted on February 20, 2019
Jim Richardson
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