Art Wolfe's Travels On The Edge

Art Wolfe's 30 year career has spanned the globe, and allowed him to work on every continent and in hundreds of locations. His photographs of the world's wildlife, landscapes and native cultures are recognized for their mastery of color, composition and perspective.

Travels On The Edge is a television series of 13 episodes featuring Art Wolfe photographing in various corners of the world, and scheduled to be aired on PBS (schedules are available on the website). Art is accompanied by photographers Karel Bauer, Sean White and John Greengo. The series are sponsored by Canon USA, Microsoft and Conservation International.

There are a handful of 'teaser' trailers on the website. I watched the one on the Ethiopian tribes (a tad theatrical, but understandable since the trailer is meant to 'sell' the episode), but I was disappointed that the trailer on Varanasi was as yet unavailable. I also watched the snippet on the Bolivian Altiplano...incredible landscape! The trailers' video quality is crummy, a function of high compression...perhaps to make it more accessible to a wider audience? This always surprises me on the part of deep-pocketed organizations...why not use the two bandwidths option, and give us good quality video?

The main website is here and the shortcut link to the episodes is here.

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