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Writer Tom Clynes keeps calm and collected while crossing a mangrove in Loango National Park.
"Our tracker Patrick told us that it was a long pass from the lagoon to the sea, but we didn't quite understand and thought it was a small walk. We thought it was a good way to get to the beach to see more animals. We left at sunrise, and walked and walked and walked. When we started to hear the sea, we thought 'Great, we're almost there.' Suddenly, between the sea and where we were, appeared this huge marsh. The roots were so thick that I feared walking on them would cause them to break; but they were very strong. Tom and I started to do some kind of circus act where you would have one foot up, one foot down, one hand up, one hand down—it was a mix of the circus and Tarzan."
—Photographer Nicolas Reynard
Photography Notes
- Camera: Nikon F4
- Film: Fuji Provia 100
- Lens: 300mm
- Shutter speed: 1/125th
- Aperture: f/8
- Time of day: 3 p.m.
"As the photographer, I try do everything first to see what will happen to the other people. After I'd crossed, I saw Tom, like an elegant English gentleman in his hat, handling the whole business so cool, almost sliding on those roots, it was a great picture.
"It was a bit hard to balance the equipment while standing on the mangroves. I wanted to do it from far away with a telephoto lens, which brings together the background and foreground, in this case, to get a better sense of the density of the roots. Had I been closer, I would have captured more of his face, but less of a sense of how those roots are very difficult to cross."
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