Documenting The Lives Of Tigers
Tiger peers at a camera trap. Steve Winter/ National Geographic This fall, National Geographic award-winning photographer Steve Winter published a book with Sharon Guynup called Tigers Forever. The images and stories that comprise the book come from three different National Geographic stories Winter worked on, and more than 60 interviews conducted by Guynup. Guynup accompanied Winter in the field for a few locations, but also wrote based on details from her own experiences studying tigers, as well as daily rundowns from Winter via satellite phone. Winter captured these intimate images of tigers using camera traps—a method he developed when he was photographing snow leopards years ago. He thought, "how do you do a story about an animal that you're never going to see." The answer was the camera trap, which he has been modifying over the years with National Geographic. Tigers Forever ...