Africa's wild animals black-white photography

Giraffes in Evening Light, Maasai Mara 2006

Elephant Exodus #2, Amboseli 2004

Abandoned Ostrich Egg

Buffalo With Lowered Head

Elephant Herds Crossing Lake Bed in Sun D

Elephant with Tattered Ears

Elephants Moving Through Grass

Elephants on Bleached Lake Bed

Giraffes and Dust Devil

Giraffes Battling in Forest

Giraffes with Migration Trail

Gorilla On Rock

Lion CU Portrait

Lion Under Leaning Tree

Lion with Monolith

Lions Head to Head

Rhino on Lake

Rhinos in Lake

Lion Before Storm II- Sitting Profile

Zebras Turning Heads

Cheetah and Cubs

Wildebeest Crossing

Lioness Against Rock

Baboons in Profile

Hippos on Mara River

Elephant With Exploding Dust

Elephant Exodus

Cheetah and Cubs Lying on Rock

Lion Windswept

Sitting Lionesses

Cheetah in Tree

Giraffe Fan

Elephant Mother and Two Babies

Elephant Herd

Buffalo Group Portrait

Portrait of Lion Standing in Wind

Giraffes Under Swirling Clouds

Chimp Portrait With Hand II

Lioness with Cub Feeding

Lioness Looking Out Over Plains

Giraffe Looking Over Plains

Lioness In Crater

Leopard in Crook of Tree

Elephant Mother and Baby Holding Leg

Chimpanzee Posing

Elephant Ghost World

Rhino in Dust

Elephant Cathedral

Giraffe and Baby in Trees

Elephant Drinking

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, as opposed to say, the Arctic or South America.
Photographs by Nickbrandt

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Horsetail Fall – The Firefall of Yosemite Park

Horsetail Fall, located in Yosemite National Park in California in 1890. it is world famous for its rugged terrain, waterfall and century-old pine trees. it covers 1200 sq km and the "fire" waterfall of el capitan is one of the most spectacular of all scenery.is a seasonal waterfall that flows in the winter and early spring. The fall occurs on the East side of El Capitan. There are a few days every February where this fall is lit up by the setting sun and reflects a bright orange.

This waterfall descends in two streams side by side, the eastern one being the larger, but both quite small. The eastern one drops 470 m (1,540 ft) and the western one 480 m (1,570 ft), the highest fully-airborne waterfall in Yosemite that runs at some point every year. The waters then gather and descend another 150 m (490 ft) on steep slabs, so the total height of these waterfalls is 650 m (2,130 ft). The image shown here is taken during a brief time during the winter, near 21 February at sunset, made famous by Galen Rowell's photograph.

The fall is best seen and photographed from a small clearing close to the picnic area on the north road leading out of Yosemite Valley east of El Capitan.

the spectacular view of the waterfall is created by the reflection of sunlight hitting the falling water at a specific angle. this rare sight can only be seen at a 2-week period towards the end of feburary. to photograph this rare event, photographers would often have to wait and endure years of patience in order to capture them. the reason is because its appearance depend on a few natural phenomenons occuring at the same time and luck.

1st, is the formation of the waterfall - the water is formed by the melting of snow and ice at the top of the mountain. it melts between the month of december and january and by the end of february there might not have much snow left to melt.

2nd, is the specific angle of the sunray hitting the falling water - the sun's position must be exactly at a particular spot in the sky. this occur only in the month of february and at the short hours of dusk. if it is a day full of clouds or something blocking the sun, you can only take pictures of your own sorry faces on the waterfall. it coincides with the fact that the weather in the national park at that time of the year is often volatile and unpredictable. it compounds to the difficulty of getting these pictures.

Mysterious Scissors Dancers of Peru

Performed in the axial and southern highlands of Peru, the Scissors Ball is a acceptable accident that tests the concrete and airy backbone of the participants.

Westerners usually attention “La Danza de las Tijeras” as a concrete analysis area two men accept to prove their ability and attrition to pain, but to the humans of the Andes, this ball is a angelic ritual. The dancers, alleged danzaq, accomplish difficult stunts and leaps, alleged atipanakuy, accompanied by the music of a violin, a harp and the complete of the scissors they anniversary authority in their hands. So abundant about not arena with scissors, right?

The agent of the danzaq and their Scissors Ball is buried in mystery, but some anthropologists accept they appeared in 1524, during the apostasy adjoin Spanish colonial rule. According to old Spanish chronicles, Huancas (pre-Hispanic deities) bedevilled the bodies of aboriginal adolescent men, acceptance them to accomplish an impossible-looking ball signaling the acknowledgment of the Old Gods to vanquish the Christian God of the Spanish. As we all know, that didn’t happen, but the attitude of the Scissors Ball was kept animate by the Andean people.

It’s about absurd to accept anyone can achieve this affectionate of acrobatic moves, while administration a brace of scissors fabricated out of two alone bedding of metal, 25 cm each, but the danzaq do abundant more. To appearance airy superiority, they go through a alternation of challenges that cover afraid aciculate altar through their bodies, bistro bottle or walking on fire. The Scissors Dance is sometimes performed continuously for hours, until one of the competitors proves his superiority.

The best Scissors Dances can be witnessed in Ayacucho, Apurimac, Arequipa, Huancavelica and Lima.

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