That is where I get inspiration.

這就是我獲得靈感的地方。

Yeah, a za little kid.

是啊，一個小孩子。

I was always catching critters and snakes once I got a camera that grew into photographing them.

有了相機之後，我總是在捕捉小動物和蛇，長大後就開始拍攝它們。

And that's really where my story with photography began on.

而我與攝影的故事，其實就是從這裡開始的。

You see that face?

你看到那張臉了嗎？

That zoo just got such a character.

那個動物園就是有這樣的特色。

I'm Sam Tip.

我是山姆-蒂普

It's I'm a 23 year old photographer from Bernie, Texas, being raised in small town Texas.

我是一個23歲的攝影師，來自德州伯尼，在德州小鎮長大。

You know, that's a part of me for sure.

你知道，這是我的一部分，肯定的。

Texans are sort of proud to be from Texas, you know, it doesn't define who you are, but it's a piece of who you are.

德州人都有點驕傲的是來自德州，你知道，它不定義你是誰，但它是你是誰的一部分。

So I really enjoy putting that piece of me into my photography.

所以我真的很喜歡把我的那一塊放到我的攝影作品中。

I was never formally taught.

我從來沒有接受過正式的教育。

I was kind of in many ways a child of the Internet.

我在很多方面都算是互聯網的孩子。

I enjoyed figuring out how cameras work by myself.

我很喜歡自己摸索相機的工作原理。

Give me a lot of freedom at the beginning because I didn't really start out trying toe emulate anyone.

一開始就給我很多自由，因為我一開始並沒有真正的去模仿任何人。

Photography is taking me to interesting places.

攝影帶我到有趣的地方。

When I graduated college, I went traveling around Southeast Asia for about a year hitchhiking on boats and sort of living out of a backpack, finding these different, really cool conservation centers and photographing their work.

當我大學畢業的時候，我在東南亞旅行了大約一年的時間，搭著船，揹著揹包過日子，找到這些不同的，非常酷的保護中心，拍攝他們的工作。

I also went to South Africa to photograph the rhino crisis.

我還去南非拍攝了犀牛危機。

That was really the first time I felt like my photos or make a difference, and my gear started turning of what photography could be used for.

那真的是我第一次覺得我的照片或有所作為，我的裝備開始轉向攝影可以用來做什麼。

I like the authentic part of photographing human and animal interaction.

我喜歡拍攝人與動物互動的真實部分。

I want people to get that sense of connection.

我希望人們能得到這種聯繫的感覺。

I'm driven by relationships and my photography, My family, when I'm traveling that they constantly sending me text, you know, checking in on me.

我是由關係和我的攝影驅動的，我的家人，當我旅行時，他們不斷地給我發簡訊，你知道，檢查在我身上。

This'd idea of just kind of putting yourself out there is something my mom's like, really good at.

這個想法只是一種把自己在那裡的東西 我媽媽的喜歡，真的很好。

And so she's kind of taught me you just kind of got to go for it and take risks.

所以她教會了我，你只需要去做，去冒險。

When I heard about assignment inspiration, I knew I had to apply over 4000 people submitted photos, you know, hearing that number.

當我聽到作業靈感的時候，我就知道我必須要申請超過4000人提交的照片，你知道，聽到這個數字。

It's pretty humbling toe.

這是相當令人慚愧的腳趾。

Think that I was chosen out of that and it's really hard to put into words as someone who grew up reading National Geographic, idolizing the photographers how much it would mean to me to go on assignment with Natcho Travel.

覺得自己被選中了，作為一個從小看《國家地理》，以攝影師為偶像的人，真的很難用語言來表達，如果能去納喬旅遊公司執行任務，對我來說有多大意義。

I kind of wake up every day and I'm just pumped to be here.

我每天醒來都會很興奮地來到這裡

To me, the stakes are so high, there's nothing else that I really want to dio would be life changing.

對我來說，風險太大，沒有什麼其他的東西，我真的想dio會改變生活。