KING KONG Lions The greater the proximity between

The greater the proximity between the subject and camera

Plains wore a small “strike-a-

Stamped with owl makers mark and 22k

The wolf on the bar offered more authenticity than generic wildlife work and that served as a prompt to me

48" x 60" (canvas size)

KING KONG Lions The greater the proximity betweenVolcanoes National Park, Rwanda 2011 I wanted to photograph a mountain gorilla head on with straight eye to eye contact. This is, after all, the ultimate of encounters and intuitively I suspected that a studied portrait could carry more emotion and be more timeless than a rushed action shot. An adult gorillas face is enormous and full of often unexplored detail. This image plays to these themes I just wish he did not hold me in quite such magnificent