Africa

When I was going through this set of pictures I was surprised at what I saw. I did not know that Africa had such a diverse and varying landscape. I was also surprised at how much wildlife there is. I was not expecting there to be so many zebras in one place.
 
This my favorite picture by Nick Brandt because it is simple and it really captures the beauty of Africa. This photo follows the rule of framing because Brandt uses the trees to frame the focal point; the elephant.

Nick Brandt used a Pentax 67II with only two fixed lenses on medium-format black and white film. This is important because he wanted a documentary style collection to show how the African landscape is slowly dying away. He hopes to educate people on how beautiful these animals are in the wilderness. "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. Before, in the wild at least, they cease to exist."-Brandt in the afterword of On This Earth.