thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 10月19日 00時10分

Amazon River Dolphins in the flooded forest, Brazil. Photo by Kevin Schafer – @schaferpho @ナショナルジオグラフィック – It was the last day of a month-long assignment tracking wild Amazon River Dolphins in Brazil. I already had thousands of pictures for the story, but I was haunted by one idea. Before I left home, the editors has told me: “Don’t just send us portraits - show us how these animals live.” This was going to be critical in telling the story of these astonishing animals, land-locked in fresh water for as much as fifty million years. Evolving as did the Amazon basin itself, they have adapted to a very different world than their ocean-going dolphin cousins. For one thing, they must hunt their prey, not in the open ocean, but literally between the roots of trees and in the branches of the flooded forest canopy. (No wonder they developed a flexible spine, quite distinct from marine dolphins which have fused, rigid spines for speed and power.) Yet the question remained: how to capture these dolphins in the trees. On the last day of the assignment, I still wasn’t sure I had the shot I wanted. I had planned to spend that last day underwater, checking other pictures off my list before I headed home. Then, an accident changed everything - a boisterous dolphin smashed my underwater housing - not an act of hostility, just a case of my being in the wrong place at the wrong moment. Either way, my underwater work was suddenly finished. Wondering how to spend the rest of this final day, I paddled out to a spot my assistant had found for me earlier in the month - a watery “path” through the forest that the dolphins often used to reach a different part of the river. It had never panned out before, but this afternoon I got lucky; a trio of dolphins swam through the flooded treetops right in front of me. It was just the sort of picture I had been hoping for, but had just about given up on. In the end, it was an important image for the story and ran full-page in National Geographic. I lost a camera that day, but I got the picture I wanted. So it goes. #boto #amazondolphin #onassignment

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