“My team encountered this isolated giraffe late one afternoon on the dry lake, and it immediately seemed core to the prevailing mood to emphasize the dust being kicked up by the giraffe’s hooves,” explains photographer David Yarrow. “Amboseli is all about dust and its capture should make the picture, not be ancillary to it. This meant not only shooting into the light, but also shooting from behind the giraffe. This was at odds with a fairly standard rule of mine to be positioned ahead of or at least parallel to a moving subject, but given all the other factors involved, it appeared breaking this rule would be the most effective way to tell the story.”
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