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I really don’t look outside of Kenya for elephants; it is the home of the big tuskers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This was one of my most coveted images in 2017, and the limited-edition prints of it sold out within a year.\u2028That sort of demand always suggests a special image. I want to take pictures that stop people in their tracks. An American friend of mine in the fashion industry refers to it as a “Kennedy Dead” photograph or headline. This is a “Kennedy Dead” photograph.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In truth, it is a lucky shot on the widest-angle lens I have—the 20mm. The subject needs to be close, otherwise it\u2028will always be “loose,” and this requires a great deal of predictive analysis and good fortune. I am clearly not with the camera!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The composition is an act of god,\u2028but I am willing to take it—the frame within the frame. The big bull had to block the late-afternoon sun or there was no picture. He kindly did that, which allowed the lighting to be energetic and dramatic. The whole picture—almost full frame—will never be repeated.\u2028This immersive study of the elephant kingdom is a complete one-off.","brand":"David Yarrow","offers":[{"title":"94 x 104 cm (image size) | 132  x 142 cm (framed size) | Signed by the artist on front","offer_id":41917117923415,"sku":null,"price":32400.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"142 x 160 cm (image size) | 180  x 198 cm (framed size) | Signed by the artist on front","offer_id":41917117956183,"sku":null,"price":37800.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0274\/0553\/files\/yarrow_david_165_The-Untouchables-2_132x142_fb1d6ece-06d3-4f69-bec4-f412fb31cfb0.jpg?v=1754932310"},{"product_id":"substitute-concatenate-g1215-d1215","title":"The Bills III (Colour)","description":"THE BILLS\u003cbr\u003e The Flying D Ranch, Southwest Montana, USA – 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The concept of this photograph has been on my wish list for many years. A group of male bison charging through heavy snow, directly towards a camera is certainly a rare sight and it always seemed a bridge too far from almost every perspective. The question has always been where and how could this epic scene unfold in front of a camera?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yellowstone National Park was never going to be the answer.  This sort of collective behaviour does not tend to happen in the park and if it did, there would be zero chance of being in the right place at the right time to film it. It is difficult to break new ground in Yellowstone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 2020 an American artist, John Banovich, an exceptional talent and good friend, suggested that I approach Ted Turner to see if I could gain access to his stunning 180 square mile ranch - Flying D - saddling Yellowstone and neighbouring Big Sky. This remarkable place is nine times the size of Manhattan and showcases Montana at its most stunning best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e John’s wonderful painting of a group of running bison adorns the wall of the main reception of the exclusive Yellowstone Club and he took his inspiration from spending time at Ted Turner’s ranch.  I recognised that this was a link worth pursuing. Flatteringly, a few months after my initial approach, the Turner team agreed to collaborate in the hope that we could raise money for Ted’s conservation initiatives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ted Turner is one of America’s biggest landowners and also one of its most acclaimed conservationists and he reintroduced both bison and wolves into Flying D, one of his three Montana ranches. In mid-winter, his team of ranchers will herd some of the 5,000-resident bison into areas where feeding is easier and this controlled activity creates an opportunity to work a situation.  Just like cowboys herding their cattle in Texas, the skill sets of the Turner ranchers in deep snow are a privilege to watch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The difficulty is that bison in this vast ranch are more skittish of humans on foot than their Yellowstone cousins, who see thousands of tourists every day.   I therefore needed either to be camouflaged or out of sight as they made haste in my direction. Luckily the Flying D team knew of a group of rocks behind which I would be obscured from the bison’s line of sight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After many a failure, and some adjustments to the approach, one gorgeous winter morning in February, we achieved what we set out to do. 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Our cognitive processing tends to elicit visual symbolisms that are consensual - mention the word “Nevada” and we think of gambling in a desert.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Florida is more complicated. It cannot be conveniently categorised or boxed. On the coast is Miami, with its tourist beaches, Art Deco, influencers, pop culture and Hispanic soul. Then up the road is Palm Beach with its genteel “Slim Aarons” high-society life of golf, tennis, bridge and cocktails.\nThe two communities could not be more different in culture and ethnicity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey only have two things in common: favourable taxes and proximity to America’s Jurassic Park - an untamed territory that remains primeval and largely closed for business. The swamps of Florida were not made for human life, yet they sit within 30 miles of two of the most evolved and desirable places to live in the world. It is as stark a visual dislocation as there can be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn no part of America does the price of real estate fall quicker than when travelling west from the Atlantic beaches of southern Florida. There are too many insects and far too many dangerous reptiles for sane mankind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe emblematic beast of Florida is the alligator and for the 56,000 students at the University of Florida, life would be different if “Gators” did not exist. The big gators in the swamps are formidable adversaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis photograph was only captured after considerable research and conversations with those familiar with the location. The camera was controlled remotely, and no one was in danger during this project. Alligators are much more comfortable living in this part of Florida than humans will ever be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf Florida was fictional, we would laugh at its absurdity. 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This is codependency working at a real estate level as opposed to a personal one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf course, there are bars in lower Manhattan that cater to Wall Street types and bars in northern Massachusetts that cater to commercial fishermen, but I can’t imagine that the decor on show will have the archival breadth that is on offer here. It is a museum to the history of oil in Texas with the occasional nod to the state’s love of sport. This is the hydrocarbon capital of the world and the walls most certainly talk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe recipe for success here is not highbrow or noteworthy; no one is splitting the atom at “The Bar” in terms of culinary refinement or cocktail mixology. But the owners are friendly, the service is quick and big contracts are agreed on handshakes over lunches that cost less than a barrel of oil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf local patrons arrive smelling of Christian Dior, they will leave smelling slightly more of crude oil. 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Every May it serves as the spiritual home of the town's film festival, which has only enhanced its status as a celebrity magnet. It is easier to name the film stars who haven't stayed there than those who have. There is a priceless heritage to the Carlton and the spell it casts over visitors remains fully intact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilt between 1911 and 1913 the hotel plays to the lore of the region. The twin cupolas are probably its most iconic feature; legend has it they were inspired by the breasts of the most sought-after courtesan in Europe at the time, Carolina “La Belle” Otero.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe hotel's massive facade is a generous backdrop for filming, and my goal was simply to pay homage to the hedonism, glamour and opulence of the French Riviera. There is zest for life and an appetite for indulgence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI brought the Sach's family's Riva Aquarama – Dracula – into the foreground. 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How appropriate it was therefore that I took this image just 32 hours after celebrating Gary’s 80th birthday in Sun City, South Africa. We have become good friends over the years and I am full of admiration for his passion and commitment to the pursuit of excellence. In my lower profile world, this image of an adult male lion is as good as I can do, but by practicing and getting it wrong, I found a way to finally get it right. It is a lucky shot, but maybe I earned it. For one thing, I have never returned from a shoot dirtier or smellier in my life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe African lion population may have fallen by 90% over the last 100 years but there are still enough of them around in Botswana and South Africa in particular, for their behaviour to be well documented by photographers. It is not like capturing imagery of a snow leopard – seek and you will find. However, an encounter with a lion where the human party is sitting 80 yards away in a jeep is hardly groundbreaking work. Telephoto images of this encounter tend to be sterile, generic and fairly dull. There is no sense of the animal’s soul because everything is too distant – no one takes a portrait of a beautiful woman from a jeep 80 yards away and why should that therefore work with a wild animal? Proximity and no magnification contribute character and power to any portrait.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Ansel Adams taught us, ‘the lens looks both ways’ and he understood that a standard or marginally wide angle lens offered the best conduit for offering some degree of spiritual immersion. The 35mm lens is indeed by far my favourite portrait lens, but very few photographers even consider using this in wildlife portraiture – it is totally counter intuitive – especially with predators such as big cats. It is good to break rules and approach one’s work at 180 degrees to what is considered the norm – what is the point of being part of the crowd?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy approach – as many know – leans on the use of desk research, analysis, field support from the very best and then the employment of remote controls. On location I will often stand in a cage and leave the camera some 50 yards from me, to do the work. It is the opposite of a zoo – the lion is in the wild and I am in the cage. Many that know me might joke that it is not before time that I am caged, but this is not normal photography. However, it is my way and over the years, I have refined it again and again. Nevertheless the success rate is very low – it is not a job for those that require a diet of immediate and relentless gratification. If it were that easy there would be a few other images like ‘Gold’ knocking around.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKevin Richardson is an icon in South Africa – much like Gary Player, albeit not in sport but conservation – like indeed Gary’s late brother Ian. The rhinoceros was Ian Player’s field of practice, whilst Kevin is the Lion Whisperer. I have worked with Kev for sometime now and we have built up a great mutual respect and friendship. To watch him work with lions in the same way that George Adamson did in Karo, Kenya all those years ago is quite astonishing. His talent is unique and quite remarkable. Kev works with very few photographers and I hope that continues to be the case – his huge fan club across the world suggest that there are no awareness issues here. Lions are dangerous to all but him and I have always worked rigidly within what he regards as safe – he has a responsibility and so indeed do I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe work together now on a number of conservation fronts, but the most immediate goal is to put pressure on the legality of the practice of canned hunting of lions in South Africa. This medieval and dark practice is protected by the wealth of some South Africans who will fight to protect their profitable trade with trophy hunters. But in time, it will be banned and I am sure Kevin will be instrumental in this progression. Our legacy of our time on this planet does not currently look that great, but this would constitute a small victory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Gold’ was my last picture of 2015 and perhaps it is also the most impactful I have taken in the year. The focus around the lion’s eyes is pin sharp and that lends huge power to the image. 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A group of male bison charging through heavy snow, directly towards a camera is certainly a rare sight and it always seemed a bridge too far from almost every perspective. The question has always been where and how could this epic scene unfold in front of a camera?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yellowstone National Park was never going to be the answer.  This sort of collective behaviour does not tend to happen in the park and if it did, there would be zero chance of being in the right place at the right time to film it. It is difficult to break new ground in Yellowstone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 2020 an American artist, John Banovich, an exceptional talent and good friend, suggested that I approach Ted Turner to see if I could gain access to his stunning 180 square mile ranch - Flying D - saddling Yellowstone and neighbouring Big Sky. 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A group of male bison charging through heavy snow, directly towards a camera is certainly a rare sight and it always seemed a bridge too far from almost every perspective. The question has always been where and how could this epic scene unfold in front of a camera?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yellowstone National Park was never going to be the answer.  This sort of collective behaviour does not tend to happen in the park and if it did, there would be zero chance of being in the right place at the right time to film it. It is difficult to break new ground in Yellowstone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 2020 an American artist, John Banovich, an exceptional talent and good friend, suggested that I approach Ted Turner to see if I could gain access to his stunning 180 square mile ranch - Flying D - saddling Yellowstone and neighbouring Big Sky. 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This is James Bond country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The proximity of St Moritz in the Engadin Valley below prompted me to contrast the harshness and timelessness of the location with the glamour for which St Moritz has long been famous. The celebrated Norwegian model - Frida Aasen - was perfect for the role and the styling was on point; the railway platform was her 1970s stage. She looked sensational in cold conditions in one of the great mountain passes in Switzerland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Alone in such an extreme location, we could have been forgiven for playing to a sense of vulnerability, but that was never my direct.  She owns St Moritz and she hasn’t even got there. Besides, she has a big old St Bernard to show her the way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This project was a logistical challenge, but when I see the final print and Frida’s face, it was so worthwhile.  This is old Switzerland at its magnificent best. 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