Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Place your bets on a safe return...

On November 25th, 2008, Daniel Belanger, a New York-based social entrepreneur, digital designer and accomplished outdoorsman, will set out on a solo expedition to photograph the Earth’s most remote wildlife. Dubbed “The Wild Image Project,” the carefully-planned journey will produce over 100,000 photographic images that will be shared with the public through books, multimedia projects and speaking engagements promoting the preservation of endangered species and natural settings.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that I don't think we'll ever see this gentleman again. The first leg is a 350 mile open-ocean crossing from Argentina to the Falkland Islands by kayak.

The goal of the Wild Image Project is to educate the public on the existence of exotic and endangered species that play an essential role in complex ecosystems that are outside the general populations’ consciousness,” said Belanger.
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"I wonder what that guy in the flowered shirt sitting on that floating shiney thing would taste like?" queried the curious great white shark.