KING KONG height-17 I prefer a winter foreground

I prefer a winter foreground as it simply adds narrative

Nothing I had taken before was special and nothing certainly constituted art

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There is a timeless authority to the photograph and monochrome lends to that authority

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KING KONG height-17 I prefer a winter foregroundVolcanoes National Park, Rwanda 2011 I wanted to photograph a mountain gorilla head on with straight eye to eye contact. This is, after all, the ultimate of encounters and intuitively I suspected that a studied portrait could carry more emotion and be more timeless than a rushed action shot. An adult gorillas face is enormous and full of often unexplored detail. This image plays to these themes I just wish he did not hold me in quite such magnificent