High slakes cottage
Date
1975
Creator
Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Zoologist
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width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
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Description
View of a flag stone path, taken from within the cottage looking out of the doorway. A pair of wellington boots are on the doormat. Taken at dawn or dusk the low sun cast shadows from the wooden gate across the path. High slakes cottage, near Milburn, Cumbria, England, was holiday home to Niko Tinbergen.
One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer for the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.
Nikolaas Tinbergen, (1907–1988), Dutch authority on animal behaviour and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1973, with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962.
Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976.
One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer for the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.
Nikolaas Tinbergen, (1907–1988), Dutch authority on animal behaviour and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1973, with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962.
Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976.
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