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Wildlife photography is one of the most popular forms of photography out there. There are many reasons for it. It can lead you to travel to new and exciting places, it gets you outside into nature, it can remove you from the world of humans, the animal kingdom will teach you something new everytime you’re out there, and in the end… it’s fun.
It’s not an easy form of photography to do well and requires a lot of days of capturing nothing, capturing many things that end up in the recycle bin and the frustrations of knowing you were so close to getting something amazing and you messed something up in the moment. It happens to all of us, even the great ones.
Joshua Holko
I recently spent a couple of weeks with my friend Joshua Holko travelling around Colombia chasing birds. It was a small group of photographers with varying knowledge of birds, but we all had an amazing time and learned a lot. I didn’t realize how much I love hummingbirds. Our ebird tracker says we saw 204 total species of birds, I can name 10…. maybe.
Joshua is known for his polar photography expeditions. He brings photographers to Svalbard, Iceland, Mongolia (I have never been so cold, and I’m Canadian), South Georgia Islands, Greenland and anywhere else there is snow. While there was no snow in Colombia, it certainly wasn’t warm at 4000m.
Guardians of the Forest
A bunch of months ago, Josh set out to make a short film about photographing wolves in the Boreal Forest in Finland. An stunning area of the planet in autumn. It’s not set up for mass tourism, and that’s one of the things that makes it beautiful. You have to do some work and be a bit uncomfortable to get what you’re there for. I believe we all need to be uncomfortable from time to time.
A photographer’s journey photographing wolves and bears in the Boreal Forest of Finland in Autumn.
Most of the wildlife footage was shot with the Canon EOS R1. White Space Films shot with various Sony cameras for the production. Everything looks great to me.
If you have 10 minutes to get a little lost in Finland, this is a very well-done film and gives you a small idea of what it’s like out there as a working wildlife photographer.
Credits: Chris Nemes from White Space Films // Mr. Jan Gear: https://www.mrjangear.com // Wild Nature Photo Travel https://www.wildnaturephototravel.com