Show us the last picture you took.
I read fewer books than usual this month, but enjoyed them all.
Favorites: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Predictably Irrational. On This Earth takes the visual cake for its breathtaking photography.
As Nick Brandt states in the Afterword of this wonderful book, "...there is something profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East and Southern Africa."
Paging through the stunning images he captured, one can't help but agree. From breathtaking panoramas to up-close and intimate portraits, Nick creates an "elegy to these beautiful creatures, to this wrenchingly beautiful world that is steadily, tragically vanishing before our eyes."
Nick's photographs transcend traditional documentary wildlife photography and enter the realm of art. The images are infused with a sense of poignancy and a deep respect for life. And he does it all without a telephoto lens. (Once you've seen the photographs, that fact will properly knock you off your feet.)
I'll close this post with more of Nick's words.
"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."
