Africa

1. When reading "Awaiting Africa: Casting East African Wildlife'in a State of Being'" I felt many emotions towards both the animals and people. I had sympathy for the animals because they were being killed for their resources and dying because of their environment. Although some humans were killing for food after starvation I felt hatred towards humans because they were killing elephants for their tusks and other animals for bush meat.

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3. This photograph of an elephant by Nick Brandt is an image of an elephant drinking from a river in a the desert on its own, trying to survive in its dry sandy home. I chose to post this photo because it's a dramatic shot of an elephant, it makes you feel emotions, and because I love elephants.

4. This photograph shows the rule of simplicity because of the color choice and the simple setting. It shows the rule of balance because of the shapes you can identify and the elephant is centered. It also shows the rule of lines because of the water lie, land line, the cloud lines, and the lines or creases on the elephants skin.

5.  Nick Brandt uses a Pentax 67II with two fixed lenses because he wants "to see as much of the sky and landscape as possible".

6. Nick Brandt takes these photographs to capture the images of wildlife before it is destroyed and to inspire people to help protect their wildlife.

7. Nick Brandt's hope by taking these photographs is to inspire people to send money to wildlife charities and to work on helping the world understand what is going on in wildlife and to help protect  it.

8. "There is something profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East and southern Africa. There is also something deeply, emotionally stirring and affecting about the plains of Africa—those vast, green rolling plains punctuated by graphically perfect acacia trees under the huge skies." 
-Nick Brandt