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One day, one story. Claude Nardin, a nature photographer with 50,000 slides, from Doubien

One day, one story. Claude Nardin, a nature photographer with 50,000 slides, from Doubien

If he could be reincarnated, Claude Nardin, originally from the Montbéliard region of Doubs, would envision himself as a little ringed plover, a frail wading bird emblematic of waterways. The photographs of this nature photographer, who fell in love with birds, illustrate publications around the world.
Claude Nardin never feels better than in nature. He met Gretl, his German-born wife who shares his passion, in the naturalist world.
Claude Nardin never feels better than in nature. He met Gretl, his German-born wife who shares his passion, in the naturalist world.

Claude Nardin brilliantly serves an art that, in a sense, combines opposites: exposure and concealment. Exposure is the amount of light that excites the sensor of his digital Nikon; concealment relates to stalking, when he positions himself in nature camouflaged to observe animals, and to billebaude, the approach on the move in neutral clothing, just as harmless.

In his house in the suburbs of Montbéliard, this nature photographer stored up to 150,000 animal slides. Then he did a massive sorting process, keeping "only" 50,000. With their technical quality and subjects frozen in unique, original attitudes and postures, "they all have publishing potential," he emphasizes. His photographs have illustrated—and continue to embellish—...

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