Wildlife photographer going to extemes to get the shot

I don't know if this has been posted anywhere but I haven't seen it. An interesting interview of a wildlife photographer in South Africa who spent 270 hours submerged in a watering hole to get a different perspective for his shots. This is dedication.

http://www.msnbc.msn.c​om …4540/vp/3585970​9#35859709

The shots are fantastic but the way he got them is pretty stupid. There are so many other way to get the shots he did without subjecting his body to malaria and all kinds of parasites. Clearly the dude needs to read his manual.

now that is dedication

Pretty nice shots. Not sure if I'd want to get malaria twice and other parasites though.. probably change my mind and approach it another way after the first time lol

Like tethered shooting and remote control ball head. There are so many other ways, but of course, then he wouldn't have gotten on the news. Sitting in swamp water and coming back with outstanding pics gets you on the news. Using remote methods and coming back gets you outstanding pictures. Course he may be exaggerating the hours and the diseases just to make it more newsworthy. Yea.. I'm a cynic.

270 hours does seem a bit unbelievable but if he did spend that amount of time in the water my hat is off to him.

270 in 3 months I believe...3 hours a day. It says it in the article.

Ah yes, when i saw the video she made it sound like it was 270 straight which seemed very far fetched but makes sense after reading the article. Figured he would looked like quite a prune spending all that time in the water

He did exactly what it takes to get the images he got. Anyone who's spent thousands of hours photographing wildlife in the wilderness knows that remote setups don't allow you to have the control you need to get images exactly the way you want them.

I am very impressed by not only his work, but by the methods he employed to produce it.

This may sound extreme, but probably is less so that what many other photographers go through to get their unique shots. I recall the Nat Geo guy who spent months in the mountains of Afghanistan to shoot a snow leopard. He never saw it until the last day he was to be there, but seized the opportunity and got fantastic footage. He was out there 24/7, not in water but up to his butt in snow. The images we see are taken for granted, but we never know the lengths to which the photographer went in order to get those shots.