This photograph, taken in Ruaha National Park, captures a herd of elephants moving quietly into the light of a deep orange sunset. The warm, ember-like tones are distinctive of Ruaha’s late light, where the sun drops low and washes the landscape in ochres, rusts, and golds found almost nowhere else.

The composition allows the herd to recede gently into the glow, their forms silhouetted but unmistakable. There is no lead subject here—rather, it’s the collective presence of the group, their path aligned with the setting sun, that gives the image its strength. It’s a portrait not of a single individual, but of a way of life, quietly carried forward.

Titled Ruaha Reverie, the image invites a moment of stillness—a pause to reflect not only on the beauty of the landscape, but on the enduring presence of its wild inhabitants. What once felt at risk of vanishing is, in places like this, beginning to hold its ground again. After years of heavy poaching, elephant populations here are slowly recovering. This quiet scene becomes a reverie of resilience—a vision of what is possible when protection and coexistence are given space to take root.