Homage to Photographer Nick Brandt

At our camera club this evening several of us are paying homage to photographers who've made a name for themselves over the years. I was allocated Nick Brandt (no, I'd not heard of him before!) but he's a British photographer who works a lot in Africa, documenting the impact of environmental destruction and climate change on people and wildlife. There's more about him here.

One of his collections is entitled "Inherit the Dust", in which he made massive panel prints of wild animal photos and placed them in destroyed environments then photographed them there. He works in monochrome.

I decided to try to copy his technique using UK animals. Clearly I didn't have the resources to print massive panels so I mocked up the effect in Photoshop. So I have a deer under a motorway, fish and dead insects in a polluted beach environment, and a squirrel in an industrial environment.

Most of my examples were taken from my back catalogue so not blippable "on the day". However this morning I took this photo of a new housing estate and added a photo of a hedgehog (that was taken a while ago, I admit). Urban environments like this are not good news for hedgehogs - although their problems can be alleviated by "hedgehog highways" where folks cut small holes at the base of their garden fences to allow the creatures to roam.

 I therefore thought it might be interesting to use this for today's blip.