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stopdropandvogue: A still from the movie The Lost Explorer directed by Tim Walker photographed by Francesca Foley “‘Ages ago someone told me how, in Victorian times, there were canary clouds over the Atlantic,’ Walker says, referring to the days when a taste for exotic birds meant that clippers sailed back from Africa loaded with cages. Halfway home, they would release the birds, which would soar over the sea, until, too tiny to reach land, they would drop back down to the ship and a life of captivity. Walker was determined to capture this on film. ‘It was the toughest scene,’ he says. ‘We could afford only 300 canaries, and at the end, the animal wrangler retrieved 287. He put down nuts and seeds and five more appeared, then another seven. By the time the last one came down, it was dusty brown from being up in the rafters.’” -Via View Larger

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A still from the movie The Lost Explorer directed by Tim Walker photographed by Francesca Foley

“‘Ages ago someone told me how, in Victorian times, there were canary clouds over the Atlantic,’ Walker says, referring to the days when a taste for exotic birds meant that clippers sailed back from Africa loaded with cages. Halfway home, they would release the birds, which would soar over the sea, until, too tiny to reach land, they would drop back down to the ship and a life of captivity.

Walker was determined to capture this on film. ‘It was the toughest scene,’ he says. ‘We could afford only 300 canaries, and at the end, the animal wrangler retrieved 287. He put down nuts and seeds and five more appeared, then another seven. By the time the last one came down, it was dusty brown from being up in the rafters.’” -Via

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