GIRAFFE PREDATORS BLACK AND WHITE FULL

I was very hesitant to move to digital photography, and it took me years to switch.

In this one between a mother bear and her cub at Katmai National Park, Alaska, mom was taking way too much time fishing, and the cub went back and forth from napping on her back to looking around Embracing Change In Photographic Technology My mission is to use photography to show that animals have emotions, characters and personalities. It has had some major ups and major downs, moments in which I didn’t know from where my next paycheck would come and moments I cried behind my camera because I was so taken by beauty. Sometimes our road finds us, and I could have never imagined the journey I was about to take.

GIRAFFE PREDATORS BLACK AND WHITE FULL

I was hooked, and after three years on a full scholarship in engineering, I left and moved to Australia, where I pursued a fine arts degree with a concentration in photo media. Their photographs, as well as the work of other black-and-white masters like Mary Ellen Mark, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Sebastiao Salgado, Edward Weston and others, took me to places, shared stories, revealed the extraordinary in everyday objects, introduced me to strangers, shared passions and exposed injustices. Including your subject’s surroundings can help elevate your image by adding the location to the story. Photographed at La Senda Verde in Bolivia, a spider monkey hangs from a tree at a sanctuary on the outskirts of the Amazon.

Giraffe predators black and white