Africa

Step 1:

I think that it is very interesting that Nick Brandt captures animals in their "state of being" I would watch documentaries about African wildlife. The documentaries never just showed the animals being themselves so to speak, they always showed action and drama in the animal kingdom. Nick Brandt wanted to show us what the animals were like just walking or laying around. His pictures are meant to show us the peace in the animals.

Step 2:

This is my favorite image because the lioness herself is beautiful, and the lion cub is also so cute, but the lioness holding her cub in her mouth shows how lions protect their cubs and shows motherly love and instinct. The lioness has her ears pushed slightly back as though she is listening to the space around her, listening so she can protect her cub and herself.

Step 3: 

The rules of photography that are in this picture are simplicity, rule of thirds, and framing. The background is very simple, there's nothing really in the background except for some hills and mountains but it's very clear that the subject is the lioness and her cub. The lioness' face and her cub are in the upper right hand corner, drawing your attention to her face and the cub in her mouth which is rule of thirds. Finally, the darkness in the sky may be a storm or just clouds in the sky but how the darkness in the sky frames the lioness and her cub from above and then how the rocks and the dirt frame the from below, shows framing.

Step 4: 

1. Instead of using lenses that can get a closer picture Nick Brandt uses lenses that can't go in so close so that you can get a feel for that area around the animal.

2. Nick Brandt takes these photos to show us the animals in their state of being before they go extinct, and he's trying to show us what we are destroying so we can stop.

3. Nick Brandt takes these photos to show animals in their natural "state of being" meaning not hunting and not all the drama we see in documentaries but to show us what they are like just being.

4. "the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa." -Nick Brandt