Book - The Photo Ark

Do you know the source location of the wild parents?

 

Afraid not sorry

 

Just looked through the book yesterday and it was brilliant and inspired me even more. Joel Saretore was the first photographer that encouraged me to branch out with my editing, as simple as the method is, the black brings out every detail.

 

I just finished the book (I got it for Christmas) and i enjoyed it very much. I noticed the picture of the luecistic Red-Tailed Hawk was taken at the Minnesota Zoo. It is likely I have seen the same individual during the zoo's bird show.

 

Wow, that hawk is still around? I saw him when I was a kid!

 

Does the book "expand" as there are new photos being taken?

Also, since Mr. Sartore has taken the picture of a Pyrenean desman why don't we discuss about the animals that are yet to have their picture taken by Mr. Sartore? I will start with these species from Japan

Japanese giant flying squirrel (Petaurista leucogenys)
Japanese Badger (Meles anakuma)
Tsushima leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilurus)
Crested ibis (Nipponia nippon)
Ryukyu flying fox (Pteropus dasymallus)
White-bellied green pigeon (Treron sieboldii)
(captive) Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta)
Ryukyu ruddy kingfisher (Halcyon coromanda bangsi)
and Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi)

So many beasts not enough time...

 

Birds of the Photo Ark released recently.

 

Worth noting for this thread - Dallas Zoo prominently features his work, including having his images all along the walls of the tunnel that connects the two parts of the zoo. I don't mean prints, these are floor to ceiling, massive copies of his images on the walls. It's stunning, and so cool to see them so large! They also had some odds and ends in the gift shop with his work, I got a few little pocket notebooks and things.

 

JS photographed volcano rabbits and endemic mexican reptiles and amphibians at Chapultepec zoo. But he still has no Photos of the rescued guiña at Santiago zoo in Chile or of Loly the olinguita at Quito zoo.

 

Just read RARE: Portraits of America's Endangered Species (also by Joel Sartore) and it contains equally amazing photographs and though provoking words. I even learned of some species I hadn't heard of before, like the Iowa Pleistocene Snail.