https://www.jamesrlarison.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2023-04-20 https://www.jamesrlarison.com/gallery daily 0.75 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1618495277704-8OJ9SUSZFWV43Q1FUZO0/001.+Crash+Scene.jpg Gallery July 6, 1979: Jim Larison narrowly escaped a violent airplane crash in the Bering Sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1618495309811-ID553Q67GBTWWV22OOVR/002.+C119+Wreckage.jpg Gallery His arm still in a cast, the violence of that night still written on his face, Jim returns to the crash site and inspects the wreckage of the airplane’s cockpit and the seat he occupied on that fateful night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1617837368228-DH0CJDFXTNM1SKISSHL1/Jim+filming+goat.jpg Gallery During his long career as a cinematographer for the National Geographic Society, Jim spent a great deal of time up close with his subjects—here, an especially cooperative Rocky Mountain goat on Montana’s Gunsight Pass, 1982. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1617893505463-TTUZHZX83G0N8U4AOT6P/012.+Camera+Arriflex+SR+2.jpg Gallery JIm’s favorite motion picture camera, the exquisitely engineered Arriflex 16SR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1619374189720-VXSYX0HD97FG5B44G7OJ/Stingray.jpg Gallery Jim puts down the camera long enough to play with a friendly stingray in the Cayman Islands 1987. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1619374393250-X6O8JIQZOM7JG65URWFC/Author+Photo.jpg Gallery For months at a time, Jim, his wife Elaine, and their two sons, John and Ted, lived in “the bush,” filming brown and black bears in Alaska, 1991. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1617837368249-SR2XQSP6FDLZ6JFR59BW/John+and+Ted.jpg Gallery John and Ted Larison showing off in their parents’ dive gear, Great Barrier Reef, Australia 1986. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1617837368259-CG5S07D5LMHJNI3OZO3U/Jim+and+John.jpg Gallery John and Jim while skin diving in the reefs around Heron Island, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1618065232774-RT0XO7T0Q8C2HQJOZG1J/019.+Elaine+Larison+on+The+President.jpg Gallery Elaine Larison crampons her way to the top of The President in Yoho Provincial Park, Canada… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1617980049427-PXLDSBLYP5T0XZE9J4P3/Elaine+sound+gear.jpeg Gallery …and records the sounds of a Howler Monkey in the Brazilian rain forest, 1991. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1618064430415-2AZFTWRGMWQ4F8XMS2HY/Climbing+Vertical+Ice.jpg Gallery Jim ascends vertical ice while filming on Mount Robson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1618064550937-5U1YVPUJSHQVCQ444Y24/Filming+Rescue.jpeg Gallery Clinging to the west flank of Mount Hood in Oregon, Jim works with Gene Griswold (top) and Doug McGuire (left) to film a high-altitude rescue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1618064699956-F3V6AYYNNLAE70D5XI83/Jim+Habel.jpg Gallery Crossing the Wapta Icefield, preparing to climb Mount Habel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1617916139696-OJ0R8J93IJP0FT4L8P6H/snow%2Bmountain.jpg Gallery There is nothing quite like climbing, then standing on the top of a snow-covered rocky mountain! That is what I call “A ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1617917157218-QE0EUEJX1ID393IRXACA/Jim+and+Elaine+on+Sears+Tower.jpg Gallery Jim and Elaine enjoy a “birds-eye-view” overlooking Chicago in 1993. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1617893726633-KUSWQCL779V4MQV315PQ/009.+Buckaroo.jpg Gallery Ted Larison—one very happy buckaroo—during the filming of Sagebrush Country, 1985. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1617893837646-NO7IBMHVGFYTCS81Z47E/Author+Photo.jpeg Gallery Jim Larison 2010. https://www.jamesrlarison.com/on-assignment daily 0.75 2026-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e3d34ad9a282a55df97d4/1617837371582-45XK1QM97962OT3HQRLU/Cover+Art.jpg On Assignment - From Chicago Review Press www.chicagoreviewpress.com/OnAssignment Have you ever wondered how National Geographic photographers get those stunning images? On Assignment offers a rare and honest look behind the scenes. It’s a unique life story, told from the perspective of someone who spent twenty years traveling the world for the Society’s Television and Educational Film Division. One reader wrote, “On Assignment is insightful and inspiring, honest, engaging, and most of all, immensely entertaining.” (Kevin Grange). Another wrote, “Quite simply, this is one of the best manuscripts I’ve read in many years.” (Jerome Pohlen, Editor, Chicago Review Press). https://www.jamesrlarison.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-04-08 https://www.jamesrlarison.com/bio daily 0.75 2025-10-07