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FIGURE 21.1 Deer. © Richard Saunier

CHAPTER 21 Speed and Stoicism

The Nature of the Elements

Featuring work by Richard Saunier

 

 

WHEN WE PHOTOGRAPH natural things, the landscape, fauna, and animals, we do so as we have learned from National Geographic and other sources that gave us the understanding of the hummingbird's frozen wings, the crocodile's gaping maw, and the monkey's stare while hanging upside down.

These striking images have the element of beauty and the scientific. They arrest the beating wings, measure the jaw's impressive diameter, and make us wonder what it would be like if our legs and feet, our atrophied tails, would ...

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