Africa

I really liked that this power point was in black and white, because sometimes color can distract you from what is actually in the photo. The photos make me want to go to Africa even more than i did before, to see it with my own eyes, instead of through pictures. I loved the detail in every photo. A lot of the pictures left me speechless because they were so amazing. I really like Nick Brandt's photography from this power point. 

I really like this photo because it looks so unreal. It looks as if it was painted or drawing, instead of photographed. I love the little shine in the gorilla's eyes, the slight open mouth, the stance the gorilla takes, and you can see every detail of the gorilla's fur. This photo is just so perfect, it's hard to believe it's real.

One of the rules of photography Brandt used was framing. The surrounding leaves and bushes make for a very good, balanced frame around the gorilla. This photo is also very simple, just a gorilla standing next to some leaves, nothing more, nothing less. I like the simplicity and the framing Nick Brandt used, because it adds a good view of the gorilla, without it just being a gorilla, or being a gorilla with other animals in the background.

According to a New York Times article, Brandt used a medium-format Pentax 67II. Brandt uses his camera to take these photos and sells them to raise money for an organization called Big Life Foundation. This foundations works on saving the wildlife by hiring rangers, to stop poaching of the animals and to save their species in Kenya and Tanzania.
With his photos he hopes to get people to realize what is happening in Africa, and to donate money to save the wildlife there. He takes them in black and white or sepia, in the New York Times article, it says, "The resulting photographs feel like the artifacts from a bygone era."

With his interview with the New York Times, he says, "I'm a pessimist, but that doesn't mean I'm going to give up on trying to limit what's happening. Sometimes you have to realize that it's extraordinary that there are any elephants left at all."

Nick Brandt has released two books from photo shoots in Africa, and he is expecting to release his next book sometime in September of 2013.