To Photograph a Galápagos Tortoise, Get Out of the Race
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To Photograph a Galápagos Tortoise, Get Out of the Race
In this piece, the photographer Federico Rios Escobar explains how he drew a particularly large subject out of her
proverbial shell at a recent (and spontaneous) shoot for a Travel section cover story on the Galápagos Islands.
I asked my driver to stop the car so I could get out, and I watched one of them slowly advance on the sidewalk as cars and buses passed by.
The last thing I wanted was to slip and find myself — or my camera — flattened under one of those monumental animals.
On the last day of my assignment in the Galápagos, I noticed a couple of tortoises on the road that leads from Puerto Ayora to the airport.
I had been lying there on the ground for almost 40 minutes without realizing the passage of time, while the tortoise barely moved a few meters.
By FEDERICO RIOS ESCOBARJUNE 26, 2017
Times Insider shares insights into how we work at The New York Times.
In this piece, the photographer Federico Rios Escobar explains how he drew a particularly large subject out of her
proverbial shell at a recent (and spontaneous) shoot for a Travel section cover story on the Galápagos Islands.
I asked my driver to stop the car so I could get out, and I watched one of them slowly advance on the sidewalk as cars and buses passed by.
The last thing I wanted was to slip and find myself — or my camera — flattened under one of those monumental animals.
On the last day of my assignment in the Galápagos, I noticed a couple of tortoises on the road that leads from Puerto Ayora to the airport.
I had been lying there on the ground for almost 40 minutes without realizing the passage of time, while the tortoise barely moved a few meters.
By FEDERICO RIOS ESCOBARJUNE 26, 2017
Times Insider shares insights into how we work at The New York Times.