Ashes and Snow

Seshu over at Tiffinbox turned me onto Canadian photographer Gregory Colbert's work titled Ashes and Snow -- which is absolutely, positively blowing my mind. Colbert's images of elephants and whales are so incredible and awe-inspiring and surreal that the mind immediately dismisses them. Maybe it's because we have all I've grown cycnical and untrusting of things that look to good to be true, or maybe it's just because his images feel like I'm looking into a dream, that I can't quite comprehend actually living one and capturing one on film, like he did so beautifully.

"This rare freedom allows for an unhampered purity of artistry, a sky’s the limit vision that is unlike anything else out there. “We would hang around for months. With whales we could work for six weeks, without even shooting a frame of film... around full moons is a good time. I think it’s the Zulus who say, patience is an egg that hatches great birds. I guess I’m a Zulu at heart. You wait heartfully, and there are days of miracles, and there are days when you’re just thinking about them. But you don’t push it. The elephants will decide, or the whales will decide. I’ll work on elephant time.”

17 May 2005 by Melissa Lyttle

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