'Curiosity' and 'Baby Steps'
This weeks featured photographer was, again, so painstakingly obvious that I am ashamed that I didn't think of him sooner. Everyday when I go online, one of my homepages is the site Deviantart.com. It is an amazing place filled with talented artists that share their work online to inspire others and motivate hard work. This site hosts anyone and everyone who finds it, showcasing the best online sketchers, manipulators, cgi workers, and photographers along with many many more. It is hardly a week that goes by that this guy, username Sooper-Deviant, isn't on the front page of 'Most Popular in the Last Three Days', and I have to agree with the general population of the site that he is simply amazing.
On this site, there isn't really much of a bio page, limiting the information I have on him as a person, but I do know what he does. He is a photographer (duh) that goes around the United States taking pictures- most notably of zoo animals. You're probably thinking 'Big deal, big deal' but the fact is that it IS a big deal. And not because waiting for an animal to move for hours only to approach the obstacle of a chain-linked fence or solid glass that is in between you and your subject. No, this man is much more impressive than even that- it's HOW he captures the animals. In his photos, you not only see and appreciate the pure beauty of whatever exotic animal he got lucky enough to capture, but also in how he portrays the animals. He gives them human emotions, feelings, and actions. His titles also add to the humanistic feature that he gives every one of his subjects.
I can only imagine all for the hard work, patience, and motivation that he had to have to continue to learn by trial and error, about how to capture such life in animals that so rarely are seen the way he portrays them. I highly encourage anyone to look at his magnificent (and obscenely large) gallery on Deviant art, his link is here:Sooper-Deviant
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