Very cool. This month's National Geographic magazine has a special on State Fairs.
And you can't very well do a story on State Fairs without visiting Minnesota. And you can't very well publish a National Geographic story without lots of pictures. And you can't do just about anything at the Minnesota State Fair without me finding out about it somehow...
The interesting thing is... I was actually taking pictures WITH this photographer one evening on the midway (just by coincidence)... And I have proof.
If you go to the slideshow slide where he's pictured "Poo-bah" and the other carny sideshow folks -- I was there when he was shooting. The barker said something about a National Geographic photographer taking pictures for a 'big story', and I almost didn't buy it until I noticed the high-end camera gear that the guy was sporting. So I took his picture.
Here's my picture of him taking the picture in the magazine -- note that he's shooting with a big fish-eye lens, just like in the photo.
And wouldn't you know it -- I just let my NatGeo subscription expire. I guess I'll have to go buy this one at the newstand.
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