KING KONG width-17 Sterling silver with Turquoise

Sterling silver with Turquoise

My plan was to use the base of the derrick in West Texas as a platform on which to play a parody of those early dirty days of wildcatting and I knew Ty would kill his look

polar bears

when the first stone room was built for a blacksmith’s shop and a stagecoach stop at the base of a treacherous trail

the temperature rose above freezing and my canvas on the ground melted quickly

KING KONG width-17 Sterling silver with TurquoiseVolcanoes National Park, Rwanda 2011 I wanted to photograph a mountain gorilla head on with straight eye to eye contact. This is, after all, the ultimate of encounters and intuitively I suspected that a studied portrait could carry more emotion and be more timeless than a rushed action shot. An adult gorillas face is enormous and full of often unexplored detail. This image plays to these themes I just wish he did not hold me in quite such magnificent