Acclaimed photographer Greg du Toit has had his fine art wildlife collections shown around the world. His most recent series, “The Enchanted Forest,” won the wildlife category in the the Fine Art Photography Awards.
Acclaimed photographer Greg du Toit has had his fine art wildlife collections shown around the world. His most recent series, “The Enchanted Forest,” won the wildlife category in the the Fine Art Photography Awards.
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The series shows elephants in a forest on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. “I just found places in the forest that work right, where there was a beautiful window or there was a beautiful light coming through, and I just wait for an elephant to show up,” said du Toit of the process.
The series shows elephants in a forest on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. “I just found places in the forest that work right, where there was a beautiful window or there was a beautiful light coming through, and I just wait for an elephant to show up,” said du Toit of the process.
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For this image, the South African used a slow exposure and moved his camera to give the elephant a ghostly appearance. “I specifically wanted to create a photograph just to illustrate that wildlife is vanishing, the habitat in which animals live is vanishing, and that's just a fact,” he said.
For this image, the South African used a slow exposure and moved his camera to give the elephant a ghostly appearance. “I specifically wanted to create a photograph just to illustrate that wildlife is vanishing, the habitat in which animals live is vanishing, and that's just a fact,” he said.
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Lighting is key to du Toit’s work. Here he captures the silhouette of a trio of gnus walking on the plains of Kenya’s Amboseli region.
Lighting is key to du Toit’s work. Here he captures the silhouette of a trio of gnus walking on the plains of Kenya’s Amboseli region.
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Du Toit once spent 16 months at a waterhole waiting to capture images of free-ranging lionesses and cubs in Kenya’s South Rift Valley. He says he spent three months laying in the water, to get the perfect shot.
Du Toit once spent 16 months at a waterhole waiting to capture images of free-ranging lionesses and cubs in Kenya’s South Rift Valley. He says he spent three months laying in the water, to get the perfect shot.
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In his 2022 memoir, “Wilderness Dreaming,” Du Toit wrote that a pair of lionesses, which were only a leap away from him, realized he was in the waterhole. “I’m quite amazed I lived to tell the tale,” he told CNN.
In his 2022 memoir, “Wilderness Dreaming,” Du Toit wrote that a pair of lionesses, which were only a leap away from him, realized he was in the waterhole. “I’m quite amazed I lived to tell the tale,” he told CNN.
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A giraffe galloping under a cloudy sky in Amboseli.
A giraffe galloping under a cloudy sky in Amboseli.
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Du Toit says his favorite animals to photograph are lions and elephants. Here, elephants and egrets cross the savannah at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya.
Du Toit says his favorite animals to photograph are lions and elephants. Here, elephants and egrets cross the savannah at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya.
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