Apr 1, 2021
Our guest today Oscar Manguy was born in Baja, Mexico, and grew up exploring the Sonoran desert. At the age of nineteen, he participated in a 15-month long photography expedition where he developed a passion for outdoor photography. The "adventure life" led him to Alaska, New Zealand, Patagonia, USA, and Scandinavian Arctic leading expeditions for NOLS. Oscar is an outdoor educator and spends most of his time in nature. Nowadays, he lives in a remote cabin in Eastern Finnish nature.
Today, we will discuss what an outdoor professional photographer with 18 years of delivering life-changing experiences worldwide, founder of 360N Photo Collective, has to share about his life.
In the Episode:
- (3:20) Saying "I think something happened" just because his gut said so, Oscar explains how he had a feeling of the strongest earthquake of his life. With a missing passport because of the fallen building where his paperwork was being processed, Oscar talks about how his stay got delayed for the course.
- (7:25) Oscar shares his story about the orcas in Alaska. Being 3-4 meters away from the orcas, as they scratch their bodies on the pebbles, Oscars tell us about the beautiful experience he witnessed for almost an hour.
- (13:51) In 1999, Oscar did a 461-day photo expedition around the Baja peninsula, he shares the time he first learned about NOLS. He further adds how it was the best trip, course, and experience of his life.
- (16:30) In the widest part of Baja, Oscar describes the story of where his group witnessed a flock of condors. Being spread out and stretching your arms out, Oscar talks about how the condors started gliding 5 meters away from them in a narrow place. Half an hour of nervous admiration of wild beauty, Oscars gives shares a beautiful story.
- (25:15) A 30 days course of island hopping, being hosted in a secondary school of the town, Oscars shares the time where his group slept in hallways and floors of the school. Having no information, google being the backup, he describes how they were faced by a whirlpool. He later talks about how they witnessed the milky way, along with a part where they saw the oldest fish trap in the water made of arrowheads and sticks like the old times.
- (50:30) Oscar later reveals his favorite costume, gears, and many other things during our round of rapid-fire. Along with his best friend, a camera, Oscars puts down some great things at the end.
Instagram - oscar.manguy
Web - https://oscarmanguy.com/
360N - https://www.360n.fi/
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