This picture makes the lion look like a true king of Africa. He looks absolutely majestic. This picture is my favorite because it gives me a sense of raw, untamed power.
The rule used here is simplicity, the sole subject of this picture is the lion.
The photographer, Nick Brandt uses a He uses a Pentax 67II with only two fixed lenses.
Frustrated that he could not capture on film his feelings about and love for animals, he realized there was a way to achieve this through photography, in a way that he felt no-one had really done before.
" I'm not interested in creating work that is simply documentary or filled with action and drama, which has been the norm in the photography of animals in the wild. What I am interested in is showing the animals simply in the state of Being. In the state of Being before they are no longer are." said Nick
"Before, in the wild at least, they cease to exist. This world is under terrible threat, all of it caused by us. To me, every creature, human or nonhuman, has an equal right to live, and this feeling, this belief that every animal and I are equal, affects me every time I frame an animal in my camera. The photos are my elegy to these beautiful creatures, to this wrenchingly beautiful world that is steadily, tragically vanishing before our eyes " he continued
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