Buffalo Soldier

  Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA - 2021Large – 56” x 77” Unframed, 71” x 92” Framed – Edition of 12 Standard - 37” x 51” Unframed, 52” x 66” Framed - Edition of 12 Three variables came together in this split second to allow this winter portrait to transcend most of my work with bison in Yellowstone. The first is of course the proximity, which allowed for a standard lens and the contextual narrative that goes with it. The river detail behind lends to the power of the image as it gives an emphatic sense of place and season. This proximity came from a combination of my experience of bison movement and fluency in the use of remote control cameras. This is not something people should try in Yellowstone without a good guide and extreme caution. The second bonus is simply the position of the bison’s head. The big males do resemble beasts from some sort of fantasy production and the lower the camera is relative to the head, the more the sense of an encounter with a creature from anoth