On this edition of Conversations, Santino Zafarana talks with host Dan Skinner about “Think Before You Shoot: The Art of Taking Creative Photographs.” In addition to creating his own works of photographic art, he teaches and mentors at the Creative Photography Workshops school in Los Angeles, which he owns with his wife Tracey Landworth, an equally accomplished photographer.

On this edition of Conversations, Brian Skerry talks with host Dan Skinner about his latest book with National Geographic, “Secrets of the Whales.” Skerr

On this edition of Conversations, Joel Sartore talks with host Dan Skinner about his latest book with National Geographic, “The Photo Ark: One Man’s Quest to Document the World’s Animals.” Sartore is a photographer, speaker, author, teacher and a 25-year contributor to National Geographic magazine. His previous books include “Birds of the Photo Ark” and “Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species.”

On this edition of Conversations, Mark Thiessen talks about National Geographic’s new book, Spectacle: Rare and Astonishing Photographs. Thiessen is an award-winning staff photographer for National Geographic.