By Ismail Bhai

Wild & Quiet

Notes on photographing the natural world

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Chapter I

Introduction

Wildlife photography is an exercise in humility. The subject does not pose, the light does not wait, and the landscape is indifferent to the photographer's schedule.

That is precisely its appeal for Ismail Bhai. These notes reflect on the patience, craft and ethics of photographing animals in their own world, on their own terms.

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