The beauty of animal and nature photography has nothing to envy to other genres. The work and patience that goes into creating one single frame are astonishing and sometimes, all the time and efforts don’t even result in a picture. In this video, Michel D'Oultremont describes how he ended up shooting animals and also what he feels when doing what he loves most. No matter if you love animal photography or not, this 10-minute-long documentary is one to watch!
Michel D'Oultremont is a 25-year-old Belgium photographer specializing in animal photography. In the short film above, we can follow him in this journey to capturing wild bisons. It’s something quite unique as bisons haven’t existed in Europe for over two hundred years until the WWF tried to reintroduce them in Romania.
The video shows D’Oultremont and his processing to capturing the photos he has in mind. As you’ll see, it’s far from shooting a model in studio, and it’s incredibly refreshing to hear his thoughts regarding the nature and the relation we have with it. Not only are the final images gorgeous, but the video is also beautifully filmed and deserves to be shared with as many people as possible!
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What do you think of such documentaries and animal photography? Is it something that’s too often left out on photography websites?
This is a myth that just needs to die. The bison herds in Yellowstone were always plains bison. It can be easily told by where the highest point on a bison is: on the plains bison, the highest point is directly over the front legs, while the wood bison's is a bit forward. All of the bison skeletons found have been plains bison.
Wood bison are the primary subspecies of Canada, but have been found in Idaho. While they lived in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, they just didn't thrive in Wyoming or South-Central Montana: they were always plains bison here.