ABSTRACT
Photographers like Nick Brandt and Gregory Colbert have become recognized for their animal and people, or animal only, portraits that search for the nature of the animals as opposed to just conflating them with nature. In other words their emotional being, the element that has always connected them to people as the relatives they used to recognize. In Richard Saunier's image of the deer flitting through its habitat, nature itself becomes fleeting as the deer might be experiencing it, as people might, if only they could dart through the environment at such speed and with such grace. The grasses in their curvy salutes become blurred with the animal itself as the camera pans to capture its movement. Though people can distinguish one from the other, their lines intersect and in some places become intermixed to the point where there is no discernible separation.
