The Fine Line
A mother mountain lion and her kitten carefully traverse a cliffside near the border of Yellowstone National Park. This fine, invisible line represents something much greater than the boundary of two management agencies: Yellowstone Park, and the State of Montana. One’s ethos has been celebrated as America’s Best Idea, the other’s has become blatantly anti-predator, and these cougars are squarely in the crosshairs.
For this mother, the protection of the park ensures space, prey, and privacy to raise her young. Outside of the park she can be trapped, chased, and treed, separated from her kitten, and shot. The morning these cats triggered my camera trap, the protections of the park lie on the other side of the icy river below. Migrating food, deep winter snows, and the need to provide for her family have brought her here, hidden in deep shadows. Together they walk the fine, invisible line, high upon a cliff in the State of Montana.
To See the Sky tells the story of ornithologist Lorenzo Sympson and his life-long relationship with the Andean condor. Sympson’s life history is complex and seldom spoken of, from growing up on Thoroughbred ranches in some of the wealthiest regions of Argentina, to being exiled from his home country for over a decade by a political dictatorship; but despite these complexities, one constant has been his love for nature. Sympson began studying the Andean condor almost by accident, but found a deep curiosity for the way that they fly which would ultimately shape the rest of his life. What is considered to be the largest flying bird on Earth, the Andean condor rarely flaps its wings, meaning it relies on its knowledge of rising and falling air to navigate the vast landscape in which it resides. Sympson’s life work has attempted to understand this knowledge and how exactly it is acquired, while gathering decades of baseline information on the relatively unexplored species along the way. An exciting character-driven story with its roots in conservation, To See the Sky promises a cinematic adventure through one of the world’s most cherished places.
To See the Sky tells the story of ornithologist Lorenzo Sympson and his life-long relationship with the Andean condor. Sympson’s life history is complex and seldom spoken of, from growing up on Thoroughbred ranches in some of the wealthiest regions of Argentina, to being exiled from his home country for over a decade by a political dictatorship; but despite these complexities, one constant has been his love for nature. Sympson began studying the Andean condor almost by accident, but found a deep curiosity for the way that they fly which would ultimately shape the rest of his life. What is considered to be the largest flying bird on Earth, the Andean condor rarely flaps its wings, meaning it relies on its knowledge of rising and falling air to navigate the vast landscape in which it resides. Sympson’s life work has attempted to understand this knowledge and how exactly it is acquired, while gathering decades of baseline information on the relatively unexplored species along the way. An exciting character-driven story with its roots in conservation, To See the Sky promises a cinematic adventure through one of the world’s most cherished places.