Bog People & National Geographic

National Geographic’s website is a little busy, but the site for National Geographic Magazine is spot on. Their articles are frequently interactive, with wonderful multimedia supplements, and the site is enjoyable to browse.

I subscribed to one of their many blogs, partially to remind me to go to their site occasionally, and partially to come at the content from an interesting angle, sort of like starting with the ‘makings of’ for a dvd, and then watching the movie.

The blog I chose, Editor’s Pick, selects some recent amazing photography from the magazine and discusses how the photographer took the photos. In the post “If at first you don’t succeed…”, the editor describes the incredible lighting techniques photographer Rob Clark used to capture images of bodies preserved in peat bogs for 1600 years.

Unfortunately the blogs are inept about linking to the original articles the photos were published in. The email to a friend tool is also poor. That said, you can see a slideshow with good descriptions and then click-through to the main article with the navigation on the left in too-small type.

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