Nicolas Groffal, doctor and animal photographer

Turnages landed on its objective, a badger walked on the leg, a squirrel even set up on its right shoe. Similarly, “As [ce dernier] crossed my gaze, he detailed, he had to be “tachycharde”! Consequently, »» General practitioner, Nicolas Groffal does not joke either with heart rhythms or with the art of the lookout. Nevertheless, He blends into the woods to the point of deceiving the occupants, which he gently photographs, with infinite patience. Therefore, His shots of birds. Moreover, foxes, chamois, hermines or lynx earned him in 2024 the honors of the largest European festival of animal photos, in Montier-en-Der (Haute-Marne). For example, A height for this “discretion doctor”.

The forties crosses. this spring morning, a flowery meadow of gold and amber buttons which extends its own garden, in Maîche (Doubs), before settling on nicolas groffal, doctor animal photographer the edge of wood. He relieves himself from the heavy barda which he wore wedged behind the neck – telephoto, housing, tripod and backpack. Sits in the grass. And disappears – we understand the squirrel better. His equipment like her body, to her face and her eyes, are covered with fabrics, sails, glasses and camouflant hat.

The earthy brown, the fake leaves of ivy give him a half-comic, half-quidtente, between Lutin and a stealthy soldier. Image hunter, behind his monstrous objective, Nicolas Groffal can wait for the animals for hours. For the winter. it even equipped itself with glacier boots: “My longest lookout lasted almost nine o’clock, seated, without extending the legs. I had tingling, cramps, I couldn’t scream, of course. »» The ermine. he knows of experience, always comes out of a hole once the photographer’s fingers are well numb: “In addition, she moves in all nicolas groffal, doctor animal photographer directions. »»

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