Blood & Ice

Blood & IceMarlon du Toit Title: Blood & Ice Small: Unframed: 111cm x 138cm Framed 143cm x 170cm Large: Unframed 148cm x 180cm Framed 180cm x 212cm Archival Pigment Print Limited edition of 10 prints for each size, signed by the Artist and delivered with a certificate of Authenticity. At 82 degrees north, the world feels untouched silent and achingly beautiful. Here, on the frozen frontier of the Arctic, I watched as a polar bear feasted on the remains of a

and my images from previous trips have been too marginal to do either the giants or their kingdom justice

Between Raising Kids And Raising Hell

In this anarchic

I was right and this photograph is as good as I could have imagined when I started exploring the creative concept

Only a few angles were going to work and then we also had the props behind

From the outset they embraced our creative vision and offered help and support

The next day

We were not able to close the road down and had to wing it slightly at the end of the day

I recognised that the tail of the cheetah and the structure of the tree could align a little and lend some compositional balance

That would have been one hell of a journey on the subway

Titillation

I wasn’t simply photographing a lion