KING KONG art-code-2/50 Around 24th street and Oakley

Around 24th street and Oakley

But the weather had to play ball and the forecast the previous night looked unpromising

Bronze Raven by Jim Eppler

Last week my guide gambled on a likely crossing point and at first light

I imagined a dramatic vignette of turn-of-the-century Apache life

KING KONG art-code-2/50 Around 24th street and OakleyVolcanoes 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