Africa

This photography, by Nick Brandt, is my favorite because it shows these animals in their natural habitat doing something thats dangerous yet necessary. I like this image because it shows the risks these animals face on a daily basis. In addition, I like seeing the cliffs in the background and the rapids in the river and the herd of animals waiting their turn to cross the river.
Some rules of photography are evident in this photo are lines, as shown by the horizon formed by the cliff and sky, the bank where the river meets the cliff, the line of zebras in the water, and the ripples formed by the current.
Nick Brandt uses a Pentax 67II with two fixed lenses. This is important because these images are taken without any telephoto lenses meaning that Brandt got up close to these animals and waited for hours to take their picture.
Brandt reason for taking these photos is to bring awareness to the destruction of these animals by humans, as shown though his interview with Scientific American. Brandt takes these images to showcase these magnificent animals before they are extinct in the wild.
Brandt hopes that, by taking these images, he will inspire people to take action against the destruction of these animals. I believe that he hopes that his images will raise more awareness of these atrocities and more and more people will stand against the impending extinction of these animals.

"In 1995 I first drove the main road from Nairobi down through southern Kenya to Arusha in northern Tanzania. Along the way, in completely unprotected areas, I saw giraffes, zebras, gazelles, impalas, wildebeest. A few months ago, just 13 years later, I made the same drive. I didn't see a single wild animal the entire four-hour drive. It's not that they've moved elsewhere. It's that they've been wiped out—turned into bushmeat." - Nick Brandt