{"title":"David Yarrow","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Yarrow (b. 1966) is now recognized as one of the world`s best-selling contemporary artists. He has achieved worldwide fame for his photographs of life on earth. His distinctive style has earned him an ever-growing following among art collectors. Yarrow is represented by some of the best contemporary art galleries in the world and is also a global brand ambassador for UBS and Nikon Europe. He is also engaged with and in ambassadorial roles for various charities in many areas, such as “Best Buddies,” one of the most established American children’s charities. Yarrow recently launched a podcast called “In Focus with David Yarrow”. He shares exciting insights and behind-the-scenes stories of his wide range of work, from his world-famous wildlife shots far from civilization to staged pictures of notable celebrities and models. His work focuses on philanthropy and conservation themes, which he skilfully integrates into his visual language. His powerful images of animals in the wild, charging across barren landscapes, are just as captivating as the celebrities he stages, such as Cara Delevingne or Cindy Crawford. David Yarrow takes the viewer on distant journeys and shows him the impressive beauty of life in all its facets, standing out from the documentary style of his contemporaries and surprising them with unusual perspectives and precise lighting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"btn_container\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/petragut.com\/pages\/installations-david-yarrow\" title=\"David Yarrow Installation views\"\u003eInstallation views\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c!--\u003ca href=\"\/de\/blogs\/news\/tagged\/david-yarrow\" class=\"boxed-btn btn\"\u003eNews\u003c\/a\u003e--\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"btn_container\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/artspaces.kunstmatrix.com\/en\/exhibition\/11468644\/david-yarrow-st-moritz-2023\" title=\"David Yarrow Installation views\"\u003eonline exhibition\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c!--\u003ca href=\"\/de\/blogs\/news\/tagged\/david-yarrow\" class=\"boxed-btn btn\"\u003eNews\u003c\/a\u003e--\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"david-yarrow-the-untouchables-2","title":"The Untouchables 2","description":"THE UNTOUCHABLES\u003cbr\u003e Amboseli, Kenya - 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I take most of my elephant images in Amboseli for three reasons, all of which helped make this image work. The first\u2028is that the flat and arid topography of the park—and particularly of the dry lake outside it—lends itself not only to clean backdrops, but also to good predictive analysis of elephant movement. The second is that I can get out and about and set up remotes without infringing upon any laws or endangering myself. Third, the elephants in Amboseli, just like in Tsavo, can be very big. I really don’t look outside of Kenya for elephants; it is the home of the big tuskers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This was one of my most coveted images in 2017, and the limited-edition prints of it sold out within a year.\u2028That sort of demand always suggests a special image. I want to take pictures that stop people in their tracks. An American friend of mine in the fashion industry refers to it as a “Kennedy Dead” photograph or headline. This is a “Kennedy Dead” photograph.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In truth, it is a lucky shot on the widest-angle lens I have—the 20mm. The subject needs to be close, otherwise it\u2028will always be “loose,” and this requires a great deal of predictive analysis and good fortune. I am clearly not with the camera!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The composition is an act of god,\u2028but I am willing to take it—the frame within the frame. The big bull had to block the late-afternoon sun or there was no picture. He kindly did that, which allowed the lighting to be energetic and dramatic. The whole picture—almost full frame—will never be repeated.\u2028This immersive study of the elephant kingdom is a complete one-off.","brand":"David Yarrow","offers":[{"title":"94 x 104 cm (image size) | 132  x 142 cm (framed size) | Signed by the artist on front","offer_id":41917117923415,"sku":null,"price":32400.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"142 x 160 cm (image size) | 180  x 198 cm (framed size) | Signed by the artist on front","offer_id":41917117956183,"sku":null,"price":37800.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0274\/0553\/files\/yarrow_david_165_The-Untouchables-2_132x142_fb1d6ece-06d3-4f69-bec4-f412fb31cfb0.jpg?v=1754932310"},{"product_id":"substitute-concatenate-g1215-d1215","title":"The Bills III (Colour)","description":"THE BILLS\u003cbr\u003e The Flying D Ranch, Southwest Montana, USA – 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The concept of this photograph has been on my wish list for many years. A group of male bison charging through heavy snow, directly towards a camera is certainly a rare sight and it always seemed a bridge too far from almost every perspective. The question has always been where and how could this epic scene unfold in front of a camera?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yellowstone National Park was never going to be the answer.  This sort of collective behaviour does not tend to happen in the park and if it did, there would be zero chance of being in the right place at the right time to film it. It is difficult to break new ground in Yellowstone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 2020 an American artist, John Banovich, an exceptional talent and good friend, suggested that I approach Ted Turner to see if I could gain access to his stunning 180 square mile ranch - Flying D - saddling Yellowstone and neighbouring Big Sky. This remarkable place is nine times the size of Manhattan and showcases Montana at its most stunning best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e John’s wonderful painting of a group of running bison adorns the wall of the main reception of the exclusive Yellowstone Club and he took his inspiration from spending time at Ted Turner’s ranch.  I recognised that this was a link worth pursuing. Flatteringly, a few months after my initial approach, the Turner team agreed to collaborate in the hope that we could raise money for Ted’s conservation initiatives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ted Turner is one of America’s biggest landowners and also one of its most acclaimed conservationists and he reintroduced both bison and wolves into Flying D, one of his three Montana ranches. In mid-winter, his team of ranchers will herd some of the 5,000-resident bison into areas where feeding is easier and this controlled activity creates an opportunity to work a situation.  Just like cowboys herding their cattle in Texas, the skill sets of the Turner ranchers in deep snow are a privilege to watch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The difficulty is that bison in this vast ranch are more skittish of humans on foot than their Yellowstone cousins, who see thousands of tourists every day.   I therefore needed either to be camouflaged or out of sight as they made haste in my direction. Luckily the Flying D team knew of a group of rocks behind which I would be obscured from the bison’s line of sight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After many a failure, and some adjustments to the approach, one gorgeous winter morning in February, we achieved what we set out to do. 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Our cognitive processing tends to elicit visual symbolisms that are consensual - mention the word “Nevada” and we think of gambling in a desert.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Florida is more complicated. It cannot be conveniently categorised or boxed. On the coast is Miami, with its tourist beaches, Art Deco, influencers, pop culture and Hispanic soul. Then up the road is Palm Beach with its genteel “Slim Aarons” high-society life of golf, tennis, bridge and cocktails.\nThe two communities could not be more different in culture and ethnicity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey only have two things in common: favourable taxes and proximity to America’s Jurassic Park - an untamed territory that remains primeval and largely closed for business. The swamps of Florida were not made for human life, yet they sit within 30 miles of two of the most evolved and desirable places to live in the world. It is as stark a visual dislocation as there can be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn no part of America does the price of real estate fall quicker than when travelling west from the Atlantic beaches of southern Florida. There are too many insects and far too many dangerous reptiles for sane mankind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe emblematic beast of Florida is the alligator and for the 56,000 students at the University of Florida, life would be different if “Gators” did not exist. The big gators in the swamps are formidable adversaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis photograph was only captured after considerable research and conversations with those familiar with the location. The camera was controlled remotely, and no one was in danger during this project. Alligators are much more comfortable living in this part of Florida than humans will ever be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf Florida was fictional, we would laugh at its absurdity. 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It’s taken me 30 odd years, but in crocodile years that is nothing. These monsters were around long before man and can live to 100 years old.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nBig crocs are not easy to capture in a way that conveys their enormity, their primeval menace or indeed their textural magnificence. But this image works and when I saw it in large size at the printers in LA, my heart skipped a beat. It has been worth the wait. I think we pushed a few boundaries here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThe picture was made as opposed to taken as I had a preconceived idea of what I was trying to do. The starting point was my acceptance that head on images of crocodiles struggle as there is never enough depth of field with a telephoto to do them justice. The teeth can be in focus, but then probably not their eyes and certainly not their back or tail. I don't like to have my focal point half way back in an image - it creates a tension point if the nearest point of a portrait is out of focus. A head on portrait fails to convey length and length is the key variable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nI kNew I needed to work at 90 degrees, with the croc perpendicular to the camera. I also wanted to be low and close and I wanted a big crocodile - why on earth photograph a small one? If almost all of the crocodile was the same distance from the camera, there could be a colossal amount of information in the image.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nOur research - and we did a great deal - led us to one place. The key was that the river had to be narrow, as for safety reasons I could not work from the same bank as a 12 foot crocodile - that could be my last assignment. The narrow Grumeti river in Tanzania offers chances and there is one 200-yard section with some enormous crocs on the south bank with a north bank just 20 yards away. The steep bank deters crocodiles on the north bank and that was what I needed to be able to work without fear and for the camera angle to be low. I needed to be at the same height as the croc - give or take a meter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThe image was taken late in the day and the angle of the late sun gave me every chance for a clean picture - almost all the background was in heavy shadow and three stops underexposed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\nMy preoccupation as an artist is to be original and creative. We often fail and disappoint ourselves, but this photograph is kind of cool. I haven't really seen a similar image and we do put in the hours trawling the net. I had the right camera, the right lens and the right exposure. Phew!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThis scene could well have happened 10,000 BC - but we will never know. 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That photograph has now sold out and I was honoured that both Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese signed a copy which sold for $200,000 at Art Miami at the end of that year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It was always our intention to do a sequel, but Covid put paid to that in 2020. However, the delay gave me time to consider various options for the story line and fine tune logistics. The unanimous choice for round two was to shoot the boat scene with the FBI agents.  For many it is the most memorable scene in the whole movie and of course there is intense competition for that top spot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In May of this year we had an opportunity to shoot our sequel off the coast of Marina del Rey in Los Angeles.  I had so much more light to play with than in the dealing room shot and my instinct was to be bold in the amount of content I could include in one frame.  Indeed, I had to work on the basis that the one frame had to tell the full story, otherwise the job would not have been done properly.  This is one of the challenges of still photography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Once we sourced our necessarily large yacht, I pondered intensely over the make up of the content and the composition of that content. The wolf would always be the centre stage, but the layered nature of the front of the boat offered my best chance of an expansive narrative around and behind the wolf.  My favoured shooting time was an hour before sunset and from mid afternoon I had built up an intricate story board in my mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e About 6.45pm out on the open sea, all the constituent parts came together and I think everyone involved should be proud of the role they played in creating the parody. I would contend that if any one of the constituents of the photograph was removed, the picture would be materially lessened. 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They are both legends in their respective careers, but their legacy may lie in what they have done to champion and support good causes helping others living less than ideal lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For this shoot, I took the Seattle Seahawks quarterback and his wife to my favourite shooting location in the world - the Pioneer Bar - high up in the mountains of West Montana. I wanted to be in command of as much as possible and with my intimate knowledge of the location, I knew I could muster together a smorgasbord of western archetypes to complement the rock star American couple. I also know the lighting and the angles inside out. It was a home fixture for me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My preconception was to build a vignette that lived and breathed cinema whilst playing on the importance of cultural refinement in the Wild West. To that end, I thought it would be playful to dress Russell and Ciara in black tie so as to accentuate the narrative. Finding the extras was easy - they are mostly my drinking buddies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There are no weak characters in this shot; there is simply no room for them. In fashioning together so many ethnicities, I hope his photograph celebrates the diversity of America and reminds us that the pursuit of the American Dream was, and is, inclusive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Revlon Ambassadors have been filmed in many locations, but perhaps none offer the storied past of the Pioneer Bar. 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Every May it serves as the spiritual home of the town's film festival, which has only enhanced its status as a celebrity magnet. It is easier to name the film stars who haven't stayed there than those who have. There is a priceless heritage to the Carlton and the spell it casts over visitors remains fully intact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilt between 1911 and 1913 the hotel plays to the lore of the region. The twin cupolas are probably its most iconic feature; legend has it they were inspired by the breasts of the most sought-after courtesan in Europe at the time, Carolina “La Belle” Otero.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe hotel's massive facade is a generous backdrop for filming, and my goal was simply to pay homage to the hedonism, glamour and opulence of the French Riviera. There is zest for life and an appetite for indulgence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI brought the Sach's family's Riva Aquarama – Dracula – into the foreground. 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Brooke knew this big bear and knew that at this time of year - the mating season - he was focused on one thing - and it wasn't me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI tend not to talk camera technicalities; after all, a camera is just a piece of metal and merely a conduit between artist and subject. But what I do know is that this photograph is elevated by the shorter telephoto lens. I don't like using big lenses and, on this occasion, just after 6:30 a.m., I felt the urge to gamble and go short. Again, all credit to Brooke, for her calm reassurance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis kind of project gets the adrenaline going. Alaska is a long way from anywhere and trips come down to a few minutes. 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Brooke knew this big bear and knew that at this time of year - the mating season - he was focused on one thing - and it wasn't me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI tend not to talk camera technicalities; after all, a camera is just a piece of metal and merely a conduit between artist and subject. But what I do know is that this photograph is elevated by the shorter telephoto lens. I don't like using big lenses and, on this occasion, just after 6:30 a.m., I felt the urge to gamble and go short. Again, all credit to Brooke, for her calm reassurance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis kind of project gets the adrenaline going. Alaska is a long way from anywhere and trips come down to a few minutes. 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It would be a challenge to think of a more apposite layer to complete this photograph. On mornings like these, visual splendour reaches an elevated level. It would have been memorable just to be there even if we had left our cameras at home. We had five mornings on set in Val d'Orcia and this was our only opportunity with the mist, which we took.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInto this ethereal amphitheatre we brought the 1955 Ferrari 121LM that Piero Taruffi drove at the Mille Miglia in its first year. In the Mille Miglia he drove from Rome to Brescia at an average speed of 189 kph - a record that stands to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo further celebrate the Ferrari story, we thought we should add a prancing black stallion in the field. Some will inevitably think this unlikely addition is a product of AI, which is why we now always have a film crew on set taking BTS. The stallion, which came from Rome, will also happily testify to his key role. Ironically the best way to combat the AI barbs is to allow third party recording on set, not ban it. The danger of AI makes film sets even more collegiate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe origin of the iconic Ferrari stallion is well documented. In June 1923, Enzo Ferrari won a race at Ravenna where he met Countess Paolina, the mother of Francesco Baracca, an ace of the Italian air force and national hero of WWI, who used to paint a horse on the side of his planes. 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I think this is as powerful a symbiotic relationship as exists anywhere in the luxury brand marketplace. Like an oyster and its shell - Ferrari and Italy have a palpable co-dependency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI make pictures, I don't take them. This series, shot in the indelible geometric harmony of the Tuscan countryside, was preceded by many days of location scouting and then many hours of distilling thoughts and homing in on what could be both creatively original and hold the attention of others. Both these filters are always challenging and necessary and I remind myself that “no idea is final”. To be creative is not enough in itself - the work must elicit emotion from others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis location near Val d'Orcia offers layers in the distance and a sense of journey. I knew the cypress tree, the backdrop, the old Fiat, and of course the 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza 0530 would all combine to give an emphatic sense of place. 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There are locations in town so trampled by camera-wielding photographers from all nations that the stone underneath looks unusually worn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI knew Portofino from many years ago – a time before “influencers” were invented and when the famous Splendido Hotel would set you back $500 a night, not $5,000. It was always clear to me that the best time to photograph in town was at first light as no one was around and the sunlight would creep into the harbour in a way that could facilitate the storyteller. There has always been a rather magical 20-minute period in Portofino and in the summer, it happens when most people are asleep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe local police permitted us to bring the famous 1955 Ferrari 121LM into what is normally a car-free destination. This is a rock star car in the history of motor racing and a record holder in the Mille Miglia. For an artist looking to be fresh, this is an Olympic gold of a prop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs always, I needed to build a story, so we brought in a 1955 clad driver and the American supermodel and TV star, Brooks Nadar, who is always both theatrical and uninhibited. Meanwhile, we always commandeered a local fisherman to give a nod to the community's timeless charm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy goal was always for my frame to include the hilltop villas of Portofino as well as the celebrated harbour town houses as it is the amphitheatre that makes the town so special. I knew the car's position would require me working from a boat, otherwise I just could not pull the intended composition together. But I took heart from that as I think we broke some fresh ground that day and I think we were wrapped before 6.30 am. 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I think this vignette celebrates that emphatically. It is a far better photograph than I expected it to be when it was first conceived and the plaudits for that go to the community of San Quirico d'Orcia rather than my camerawork.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a tableau it is of basic importance to manage positioning as well as possible and avoid tension points, but that magic comes when those in the frame act instinctively and forget that a cameraman is there. If they can maintain the illusion of a self-contained world, there is every possibility that something special happens. On this occasion the fourth wall did its job and the result is rather special.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a famous scene in Ridley Scott's iconic film - Gladiator - where Oliver Reed's Proximo tells Russell Crowe's Maximus that to win his freedom he must “win the crowd”. I am always mindful of that prompt, perhaps no more so than when filming in Val d'Orcia - a key location in the movie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was no freedom at stake for me that evening in San Quirico, but for this photograph to really work, we needed to invest emotionally in the community and win the crowd. Historical precedent at DYP would lend weight to the idea that a bar is always a good place to start such a rapprochement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCafe society has been part of the tapestry of Italy for generations but probably accelerated in the 1950s. With that in mind, the concept was to build a Mille Miglia classic car race from the 1905s into the narrative. Of course we introduced a degree of parody in our conceptual iteration; our default position is to be playful not earnest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrida Aasen has great sexual allure as the driver of the 1955 Ferrari 121LM that was driven by Piero Taruffi at Mille Miglia in its first year. 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It was a masterclass in visual storytelling and a love letter to Italy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI often think of him when working in Italy because if a vignette fails to emphatically convey a sense of place, there is very little chance of it registering with others. In a car series, I think you need not just a sense of place, but also a sense of journey. In other words, I am drawn to locations where I can see the road behind the car. In Val d'Orcia, we know the key roads to work from and if they are private roads - which they tend to be - we will have the farmer on board long before we shoot. The best light to work with, against the geometric harmony of the Tuscan countryside, is first light and logistically that demands early starts for all the crew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe visual marriage of Ferrari and the black stallion was a common theme in this series and gives a helpful nod to the iconic Ferrari brand. Our lead asset was the 1955 Ferrari 121LM that was driven by Piero Taruffi at Mille Miglia in its first year. In the Mille Miglia he drove from Rome to Brescia at an average speed of 189 kph - a record that stands to this day. Taruffi drove just past where this photograph was taken in this exact car. If that failed to excite me, or indeed any of my team, we are manifestly in the wrong job.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor hundreds of years Italy has cast a spell on creative artists. Everyone will bring their own interpretations and style and there is no definitive prescriptive path or formula. 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Thinking of that insane number sends shivers down my spine. The silver fox was clearly not normal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe route took him through the rolling splendour of Tuscany's Val d'Orcia and the community of San Quirico d'Orcia, where this photographic homage was taken. He clearly had no time to take in Tuscany's beauty, whereas I did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I visited the town on a location scout I saw the potential of this bend in the heart of this medieval hilltop village. I sensed that with the right narrative I could find the compositional balance that I yearned for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are many people to thank for making this vignette happen, including the local mayor who embraced my idea of recreating a historical moment in motor sport. We needed to work with the locals rather than circumvent them and each of them helped make this picture special. I wanted a mood that highlighted a zest for life, the value of long friendships and the energy that comes from collective excitement. All those would have been present in 1955, but it was two years later that tragedy struck and the Mille Miglia was discontinued for a period of 25 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe were necessarily greedy in our props on this set as we did not want to be lame. The trailing Ferrari is a 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza 0530. It is one of just 32 prototypes built by Ferrari; one of the most beautiful and valued Ferraris in existence. Then in a moment of logistical madness, but creative courage, we brought in a black stallion from Rome to form part of the crowd. We had heard that he could prance in an emblematic Ferrari brand way and could not resist it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome will inevitably think this unlikely addition is a product of AI, which is why we now always have a film crew on set taking BTS. 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It would be a challenge to think of a more apposite layer to complete this photograph. On mornings like these, visual splendour reaches an elevated level. It would have been memorable just to be there even if we had left our cameras at home. We had five mornings on set in Val d'Orcia and this was our only opportunity with the mist, which we took.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInto this ethereal amphitheatre we brought the 1955 Ferrari 121LM that Piero Taruffi drove at the Mille Miglia in its first year. In the Mille Miglia he drove from Rome to Brescia at an average speed of 189 kph - a record that stands to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo further celebrate the Ferrari story, we thought we should add a prancing black stallion in the field. Some will inevitably think this unlikely addition is a product of AI, which is why we now always have a film crew on set taking BTS. The stallion, which came from Rome, will also happily testify to his key role. 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I showed him my work with lions and elephants, and also my image that President Xi had received during Prince William’s state visit in the summer. I had no idea what the manager was saying but safety clearly came first in his mindset. It was clear there was no way I was getting out of a vehicle – he made a munching expression with his face and I got the gist. He agreed, however, to me sitting in a vehicle with removable windows and the biggest possible gap between the cage bars, big enough for my camera but not a tiger’s head. The interpreters also arranged for radio contact between my driver and the principal feeder of the tigers, who brings the tigers sheep, deer and chickens to eat, and throws them out of the back of his 4 x 4 in a hurried manner that hints of a few scary moments in the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The first day in the park was used for scouting. 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I haven’t tended to do them or their habitat justice. This is a “Giants’ Kingdom” and my images from previous trips have been too marginal to do either the giants or their kingdom justice. Luck evens itself out, but nature can seem cruel in its distribution of content and in this barren archipelago, I don’t recall many favours until June 2017.\nThis year, however, I did have some luck and came home with three images. There is no doubt in my mind that this photograph of a big male polar bear lends weight to the contention that wildlife photography does not need to be reportage – it can be art. The photograph is elevated by the negative space and the bear’s anonymity rather than weakened by it. Since 2011, I have spent over 30 days shooting in Svalbard and this is my favourite image of a polar bear in this part of the Arctic – indeed the more I look at it, the more proud I am. 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My instincts were that the image also needed a sense of “Yellowstone in the winter” and this, combined with the need for proximity, all pointed to a ground level, remote control approach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nTo work with ground level radio controlled cameras and a prime wide angle is very much my signature style, but it is easier with elephants in Amboseli, than bison in Yellowstone. This is not an easy location – our guide suggested that 95% of Yellowstone is out of bounds in winter. It is the most geothermally active park in the world, throw avalanches, wolves and bears into the mix and we have a primordial soup of creation.\nI failed about 10 times with my camera positioning and I tweaked my lens\/camera combination constantly. It was most frustrating and I was generally grumpy. But on the third day at about 2 pm, it all came together. The trees and the sky are most helpful additives – but what a face and what a back structure. 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A good 20 years ago in the depth of a very cold winter, Tom – equipped with just a light tent – took a back country ski trip across the 100 km span of Yellowstone – a remarkable feat that truly humbles anything I have ever achieved and a trip that will soon be commemorated by a long awaited documentary film.","brand":"David Yarrow","offers":[{"title":"95 x 94 cm (image size) | 133 x 132 cm (framed size)","offer_id":44011996479575,"sku":"DY-PH-American Idol-95 x 94 cm (image size) | 133 x 132 cm (framed size)-AR-SI-N\/A","price":32400.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"142 x 140 cm (image size) | 180 x 178 cm (framed size)","offer_id":44011996512343,"sku":"DY-PH-American Idol-142 x 140 cm (image size) | 180 x 178 cm (framed size)-AR-SI-N\/A","price":39960.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0274\/0553\/files\/yarrow_david_015_american_idol_180x178_8c6b47d7-262f-4c48-b079-bfad6a423712.jpg?v=1783287039"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0274\/0553\/collections\/david-yarrow-876466_1008a6bf-368c-4361-abd5-5db7fc72242a.jpg?v=1749033873","url":"https:\/\/petragut.com\/de\/collections\/david-yarrow.oembed?page=40","provider":"Petra Gut Contemporary AG","version":"1.0","type":"link"}