photo: Mazille/Schneider Photographic Animaliere
Eagle eyes
Intrepid photographers Guillaume Mazille and Marie Schneider spent a season with nesting eagles to capture the superb documentary images in this photo essay.
It was the spawning salmon that lured 30-year-old French photographers Guillaume Mazille and Marie Schneider to British Columbia’s West Coast. The couple scouted from White Rock to Whistler and from Victoria to Port Hardy to find the perfect subjects for their documentary images. As patient in their craft as they are passionate, Mazille and Schneider camped out with a pair of nesting eagles from mid-May to July to capture the photographs in this essay. “We spent a long time with the eagles,” says Mazille. (Exactly where, he won’t say, and it’s better for the birds that way.) “We stayed with them because they’re a key character in the salmon cycle.”
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