There is an irony about being an nature and environmental photographer based in NYC (Brooklyn really). Most people in my field are based in the West or up north in Maine and New Hampshire. There are exceptions but I am not really near any of the classic nature scenes. Gary Braasch has made fun of me for it more than once.
It was brought home to me when I bought a new tent for an upcoming expedition to Alaska. It is a solid 3 season tent. But as I don't want my first experience putting the tent together to be in a torrential downpour in Alaska, I have started practicing in my photostudio. Getting past the fact there is no place to stake down the tent, I've been turning off the lights at night, putting my headlamp on and practicing the setup.
It reminds me of when I was shooting a portrait of a NASA oceanographer recently. We were joking that we should pose her with a scuba mask on the desk. I asked her to pull one out and she said she didn't have one. When I asked aren't you supposed to have scuba gear as an oceanographer? Her response was "No, I'm a theoretical oceanographer."
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