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Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, late afternoon, the light gone warm and low. This tiger was lying up in the open, unhurried, aware of the vehicle and entirely unconcerned by it. Made at around 400mm, close enough to fill the frame with head and shoulders and let the dry ground and rock behind fall away into bands of ochre and rust.
The coat reads as vivid orange to us, but not to the animals it hunts. Deer are dichromats — they see blues and yellows and cannot separate orange from green — so a tiger crossing open ground appears to its prey in much the same tone as the vegetation around it. The colour that makes this animal conspicuous in a photograph is camouflage to everything that matters. The stripes work on the same principle, breaking the outline into vertical bands that match standing grass; no two tigers carry the same pattern, which is how individuals are identified in the field, and the marking runs into the skin rather than sitting only in the fur.
TruLife Acrylic — The premium option, and the right one for a portrait: full acrylic depth with a museum-grade anti-reflective surface, so the eyes hold a viewer from across the room in any light. Beyond the anti-reflective surface it carries superior UV protection and scratch resistance, the most durable of the acrylic options as well as the fullest.
Also available in: Standard Acrylic version · ChromaLuxe Metal version · Gallery Metal version · Fine Art Paper version
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Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, late afternoon, the light gone warm and low. This tiger was lying up in the open, unhurried, aware of the vehicle and entirely unconcerned by it. Made at around 400mm, close enough to fill the frame with head and shoulders and let the dry ground and rock behind fall away into bands of ochre and rust.
The coat reads as vivid orange to us, but not to the animals it hunts. Deer are dichromats — they see blues and yellows and cannot separate orange from green — so a tiger crossing open ground appears to its prey in much the same tone as the vegetation around it. The colour that makes this animal conspicuous in a photograph is camouflage to everything that matters. The stripes work on the same principle, breaking the outline into vertical bands that match standing grass; no two tigers carry the same pattern, which is how individuals are identified in the field, and the marking runs into the skin rather than sitting only in the fur.
TruLife Acrylic — The premium option, and the right one for a portrait: full acrylic depth with a museum-grade anti-reflective surface, so the eyes hold a viewer from across the room in any light. Beyond the anti-reflective surface it carries superior UV protection and scratch resistance, the most durable of the acrylic options as well as the fullest.
Also available in: Standard Acrylic version · ChromaLuxe Metal version · Gallery Metal version · Fine Art Paper version
Made to order · Allow 3–5 weeks for production and delivery · Shipping charged at cost, never marked up · Shipping & Returns
The watermark shown here protects the online image only. Your print arrives clean.