More than 1.5 million wildebeest move between the Serengeti in Tanzania and the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya each year in the world’s largest migration of land mammals.
Their journey to find fresh grass to graze on involves a 3,000-kilometre round trip that takes in the Mara River. Up to 10,000 wildebeest can cross the river in just half an hour. Will and his brother Matt knew that time-lapse could convey the dynamics of the famous Mara crossing in a way neither still images nor film could. For five days they patrolled the river to see where the wildebeest were massing, then set up their cameras at likely crossing points. The results revealed normally indiscernible patterns, such as the rippling ribbons of swimming animals wafted downstream by the current.
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Will is a wildlife photographer, author, entrepreneur, creator of BeetleCam (a remote-control camera buggy) and founder of Camtraptions Ltd. He spends much of his time working on long-term book projects in Africa. His latest, The Black Leopard, features a rare melanistic African leopard. Will also spent a year documenting the last remaining big tusker elephants in Tsavo, Kenya for his book, Land of Giants.
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