When I recently visited Mana Pools in Zimbabwe, I was looking for a match to an earlier image called, The Power of One, which had quickly sold out. I didnt want to shoot the same scene, but was looking for another elephant image that would perhaps be a pair for The Power of One. This particular morning, I was hoping to do something with a silhouette in the early light. The sun came up, but nothing much was happening, until suddenly this elephant entered stage left and headed for the tree. I willed him to slow down, because I was using slow exposures at the time. Then he started reaching up to get to those high branches, with the rising sun right behind him. I did a stitch a series of images taken close together to create a panorama and miraculously, everything came together at the right moment. The print name represents the elephant reaching beyond where hed been before, to reach those sweet leaves at the top.

Catalog Number: ZWCF026809-18
Edition: 300
Image Ratio: 3:1