Zimbabwe · November 2014 · Photo-essay
Late-season bulls.
A short hunt at the end of the 2014 season. Dust by mid-morning, heat by nine, and a bull whose tusks measured twenty-one-and-a-half inches in circumference at the lip — taken with the .500 MDM.
Photo-essay in preparation — images being prepared for the local pipeline
What will be published here
The frames.
- 01 Camp in the dry — brown grass, blue sky, a single shade tree
- 02 First morning tracks on the sand road
- 03 Following an old bull down a dry riverbed
- 04 The approach — afternoon wind, a single thicket, one step in
- 05 The bull down — 21.5-inch circumference at the lip, thick to the tip
- 06 The trackers and the PH — a quiet set of handshakes
- 07 Meat recovery with the nearest village
- 08 Last light, last day, the cruiser headed home
The layout below each frame follows the same editorial treatment as the Namibia 2014 journal — large image, short honest paragraph, no inflation. Come back when the images are up, or browse the existing archive from the Namibia seasons.