Nick Brandt Photography

This was my favorite picture in the slideshow of Nick Brandt's photography. I like it because it emphasizes the lioness being majestic, and the photographer puts her in the bottom left corner, using the rule of thirds, as well as the clouds blocking the sun in the top right to add balance to the picture.

To take these pictures he used a Pentax 67II. He takes the photos like this to try and capture their spirit in his work. His hope is to show the animals in a state of "being", that they soon may never occur again. He said this about his pictures, "Why the animals of Africa in particular? And more particularly still, East Africa? There is perhaps something more profoundly iconic, mythical, mythological even, about the animals of East Africa... There is something deeply deeply, emotionally stirring and affecting about the plains of Africa - the vast green rolling plains punctuated by by the graphically perfect acacia trees."