What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.

What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.