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  • Home
  • About Giancarlo
  • Portfolios
    • Portfolios
    • Favorites
    • West Mexico
    • Peru
    • Costa Rica
    • Yucátan Peninsula
    • Canada
    • United States
    • Uganda
    • Kenya
    • Morocco
  • Articles
    • Projects
    • Noctule Migration
    • COMAFFAS
  • Travel diaries
    • Diaries
    • Uganda
    • Kenya
  • Personal Projects
    • Floating hide
  • Contact

Floating hide

A small project I managed to plan, built and finalize all my myself with a little help of friends, family and YouTube videos. and everything to get the perfect photograph of a very elusive specie.

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Story behind the scenes

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How it started

Ever since I started taking photographs of birds, when I was in their proper habitat or some specific locations I knew about, I always had in mind this incredible picture of a very elusive bird called Least Grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus). For weeks I planned and built the hide from scratch (pictures below). I had just one objective in mind and it was getting as close as possible to this specie.

I inspired myself for this project based in photographers using floating hides  in Europe, inside lakes or ponds, as soon as I finished the hide I encountered a big problem. Most of the bodies of water where the grebes live is also habitat for the American crocodile. I was sure I didn't wanted to come across a crocodile while photographing grebes.

After finding a small pond crocodile free, I went straight into the water. At the beginning the birds where cautious about the hide but the longer I stayed inside the more comfortable they became with it. They even started fishing and having their normal behavior right in front of my eyes.

Building process

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