The photographers, journalists, filmmakers, and all-around incredible humans in the Think Tank community never cease to amaze and inspire us. Thanks to our good friend, Dan Carr, we were recently introduced to Pete Walsh, AKA The Platypus Guardian. Pete lives in Hobart in Tasmania, and is the subject of a new documentary about his work photographing the platypus population that live in the city's waterways. The Platypus Guardian is the premiere film on this season of Nature on PBS here in the U.S. and airs on Wednesday, October 18 at 8/7c on all local PBS stations and streaming on pbs.org/nature, YouTube...

On this episode of the VOC podcast, Deanne talks BIG cats with award-winning Nat Geo photographer, Steve Winter. Friends for many years, Deanne and Steve were housemates in college together. Deanne and Steve discuss how he got started photographing big cats, and about the inherent risks when you're documenting some of the most powerful, and endangered, predators on earth.

I’ve found myself in many historical places throughout the U.S. and I’ve always been fascinated by the stories of old buildings and architecture. But I hadn’t seen old until I visited Portugal.     My wife’s parents were born and raised in Northern Portugal. They both moved to Connecticut independent of each other, where they met and married in the early 1980s. Ever since my wife and I were married in 2016, we had dreamed of visiting Portugal together to see where her parents are from. She has been many times, but this was my first visit.     We had the...

Episode 2 of Venture • Observe • Connect with Deanne Fitzmaurice is now live! Featuring Deanne's conversation with noted celebrity, fashion, and beauty photographer, Matthew Jordan Smith, this story revolves around the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin. Matthew tells the story of how he first began shooting Aretha, what kind of music she liked to listen to while being photographed, and what it was like to be ferried around the streets of NYC with Aretha behind the wheel. You can listen to the podcast version on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or just give it a watch right here right...