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James Balog
American Photographer
Born: Jul 15, 1952
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Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted. James Balog
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At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left. James Balog
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We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that. James Balog
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I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. James Balog
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You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years. James Balog
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Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry. James Balog
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The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures. James Balog
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We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone. James Balog
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