Joel Sartore is a photographer for The National Geographic. "The frontiers are mostly gone now, and so is our connection to the land. No generation has ever been as far removed from the natural world as we are today." In his gallery, man vs nature Santore explores our relationship to nature. From Caribou in front of an oil refinery in Canada to the Bonneville Dam in Washington/Oregon, he presented how we build system and factories with the cause of nature. The shelters of animals, fish, nature, and etc...are being taken away from them. No longer they have a safe place to live in as a new factory, dam, and even a new highway is built in place to the wilderness they were familiar with. Sartore believes that we seem to forget about that we are all in this together. What is good for nature is good for humanity.
I thought Sartore's pictures are compelling. I do feel like we are becoming more detached to nature. This reminds me of our class, and how we have talked about how California is big in development. We are further threatening the shelters of animals who can't rally for their rights to have a safe place, and also as we talked about in class, the destruction of historical sites such as some of the Native Rock Art.
The above image with the mother bird and baby bird especially got my attention maybe because I am also a mother. I can see she is protecting her baby, just like how we humans need to be protected.
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