29 posts tagged “eyecandy”
(AP Photo/Nevada Appeal, Kevin Clifford)
Show us a picture of something you would miss if it disappeared.
Mom & Cubs On Hudson Bay, originally uploaded by vmselde.
Although this quote is not specific to polar bears, it's relevant to the issue of extinction:
"Every day at least one life form becomes extinct -- gone forever. Even though the vanished species may be a small, seemingly insignificant creature, areas of wilderness comprise hundreds of diverse forms of life, each one depending on others for its survival. So each loss weakens the whole. We are tearing the net whose interwoven strands support life, as we know it, on Earth."
Jane Goodall, from the Introduction to
On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa
As Nick Brandt states in the Afterword of this wonderful book, "...there is something profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East and Southern Africa."
Paging through the stunning images he captured, one can't help but agree. From breathtaking panoramas to up-close and intimate portraits, Nick creates an "elegy to these beautiful creatures, to this wrenchingly beautiful world that is steadily, tragically vanishing before our eyes."
Nick's photographs transcend traditional documentary wildlife photography and enter the realm of art. The images are infused with a sense of poignancy and a deep respect for life. And he does it all without a telephoto lens. (Once you've seen the photographs, that fact will properly knock you off your feet.)
I'll close this post with more of Nick's words.
"To me, every creature, human or nonhuman, has an equal right to live,
and this feeling, this belief that every animal and I are equal,
affects me every time I frame an animal in my camera."
