Photo essays
Stories from the long grass.
Photo essays from the Mara — observed slowly, written quietly.
hyena · first light
First Run
A topi calf, minutes old, takes its first run from a spotted hyena reading the same gold grass. The mother still bears the cord.
lion · first light
The Pride
A small family right on the lens at first, and the morning that gradually lets them go.
giraffe · slow encounter
Giraffes
The afternoon hands the giraffe the horizon, then the foreground, then the picture.
lion · first light
Roadside
The road is the room. A young male at the verge, two sisters on the track.
cheetah · first light
Mound Cheetah
The mound is the architecture. The cat is the only event on it.
lion · predation
Buffalo
A long afternoon. One fallen body. Sleep, errands, return.
cheetah · solitude
Cheetah Day
Ten years of waiting. Two seconds of fight.
lion · slow encounter
Stream
A thread of water in a slab of rock. The pride visits twice.
leopard · first light
Tree Leopard
From a tree at steel-blue dawn to the open in soft morning.
elephant · slow encounter
Elephants
A family at the forest edge, a bull alone on a red track — the same species in two different rooms.
lion · golden hour
Long Light
Three sub-adults in deep green grass — close portraits, the long sleep, and the family resolving into three.
mongoose · slow encounter
Mongoose
Upright sentry. Scatter. One watcher alone.
lion · first light
Puddle
A morning between a mother and her cub. The small distance, again and again, closing.
hyena · predation
The Burn
Hyenas working a carcass on a black scar of recently burned plain, jackals trying to pick the edges, then one hyena carrying the largest piece away — across the burn, and beyond.
lion · first light
The Walker
The mane is the constant. Everything else is the variable.
lion · golden hour
Walking Out
Gold to slate to ink. The pride walks toward the lens as if the lens were the destination.
leopard · first light
First Light
One leopard, five rooms — the earth mound at the pink seam, the wet grass, the thornbush, the erosion gully, and at last the open plain in white light.
lion · golden hour
Sisters
Two lioness sisters, two warthog piglets, two cubs — the afternoon's whole arithmetic moves from gold light into near-dark across the same patch of plain.
lion · slow encounter
Brothers
The yawn is the most active thing in the afternoon, and the afternoon is already long.
lion · slow encounter
Consort
Hard midday. The act. The walk back, past a herd that does not lift a head.
lion · golden hour
Litter
A pride still on its first hour of the day.
hyena · predation
Marsh
The marsh does the work. She brings the result onto the bank.
cheetah · predation
The Sprint
A long held breath through the hottest hours of one day.
lion · solitude
After Dark
A giraffe at the edge of the picture, then nothing, then a male lion held against the last of the sky.
lion · golden hour
Thornlight
A pair, an evening, and the same brief act repeated under two different skies.