As the sun sinks low and storm clouds roll across the Amboseli sky, a matriarch leads her herd across the open plain. Shot in black and white, this wide, cinematic image captures a fleeting moment where light and shadow collide — the elephants moving forward as the day slips quietly toward darkness. The title, Fade to Black, speaks to both the literal fading of light and the symbolic gravity of their journey: the slow, majestic passage of time, memory, and legacy.

These are not just elephants — they are mothers, sisters, calves — the living memory of the herd. Guided by the matriarch’s wisdom, passed down through generations, they move with quiet certainty through a land shaped by seasons, droughts, and distant thunder.

Amboseli is a landscape of extremes — parched and flooded, open and wild — and yet it remains one of Africa’s most important sanctuaries for elephants. In this image, the tension between light and storm mirrors the fragile balance they navigate daily: survival in a world of shifting climate, growing pressures, and uncertain futures.

Their silhouettes, dark against the glowing sky, feel almost mythic. A reminder that even as the world darkens, there is a power in unity, in memory, and in the quiet, unwavering rhythm of their stride.