From August till November 2024 I travelled largely overland from Namibia to Cameroon. One of the highlights was Gabon - Central Africa.

Eighty-five percent of its territory is covered in rainforest of which 10 - 15% are National Parks.

This image was taken in the Ivindo national park at the Kongou Falls (Chutes Kongou). If you are very lucky you may find a forest elephant traversing the falls. There is plenty of wildlife in these forests but difficult to spot because of its density.

The Kongou falls stretch over an area of around 3km, in the middle of the rainforest and part of the Ivindo river. They are not easy to reach taking a 10 - 15 hour bus drive from the capital Libreville, followed by a 3 - 5 hour trip by motorised dugout canoe and lastly a 3 hour walk to reach them. There are no villages, no roads, no telephone or internet. Only tracks cleared by machete and the only way out is the way you came in.

An extraordinary place!

This image is a panorama of 6 individual vertical shots.

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From my recently released "2022 Southwest Winter" collection.

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“Se nel sonno la coscienza si addormenta, nel sogno l'esistenza si sveglia.”

“If consciousness falls asleep in sleep, existence awakens in dreams.”

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An early morning and for a short moment a shaft of light shines through two mountains in to a Norwegian lake.
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Sun breaks through the clouds of a departing winter storm and illuminates a selection of buttes and ridges in the Grand Canyon (including Dana Butte and the Tower of Set), as viewed from the south rim.

The warm bright light along with the almost continuous cloud cover leaves dark shadows with only hints of the side canyons showing below. Sunrise at the canyon is a celebration of strong contrasts between light and shadow, a condition sometimes referred to chiaroscuro, derived from painting styles used in Europe during the Renaissance.

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