Growing up I had two magazines that I always looked forward to receiving in the mail and they were Life Magazine and National Geographic. I always wanted to photograph for these magazines and travel the world. Well, I have traveled the world but never had a chance to shoot for these magazines. Today’s article is by Peter Essick and he has lived the dream. He has done a number of assignments for National Geographic and shares one of those with us in his Fraser Island Australia – Anatomy Of A National Geographic Assignment story. Peter shares what it is like to pitch an assignment and what it takes to shoot one. Plus, he takes pretty darn nice images.