Sometimes the music of nature can best be shared in silence.
I will be off the grid on filming expeditions most of the year.
For the next 365 days I will share images from my personal Ashes and Snow journals. Each image will be numbered and I invite you to write the words…
This is day six.
—Gregory Colbert
Sometimes the music of nature can best be shared in silence.
I will be off the grid on filming expeditions most of the year.
For the next 365 days I will share images from my personal Ashes and Snow journals. Each image will be numbered and I invite you to write the words…
This is day one.
—Gregory Colbert
This photo was taken on December 12, 1994 in Kerala, India. I’d like to answer the often-posed question of whether any of my images are computer tricks: nature does not need Photoshop to collage her stories. My photographs record what I saw through the lens of my camera. The gestures of animals are not made on a silicon chip. We must find the humility to credit nature for her wonder. There is no need to digitally invent the expressions of an elephant or a whale. Instead, I’m trying only to follow nature’s lead.
—Gregory Colbert
If you have not yet experienced the laughter of elephants then you are missing one of nature’s greatest expressions of joy. Elephant smiles travel from their mouth to their eyes and then all the way to the tips of their trunks.
—Gregory Colbert
Sometimes an oculist and a great photographer do the same thing—they help us to see more clearly. I just returned from my expedition filming polar bears in the Arctic. Paul Nicklen (http://www.facebook.com/paul.nicklen) led us on our journey. He is a photographer and visual storyteller like no other who is changing the way we see our planet’s polar regions. Nicklen is a virtuoso, a wild-at-heart Mozart with a camera whose images (like the one below) invite us to see and experience nature from the tips of our toes to the hairs on the backs of our necks. (PS: Special thanks to the captain and the courageous crew of the Hanse Explorer who sheltered our dreams as we navigated the ice pack.)
—Gregory Colbert
