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Indian sambar at Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan. We had been parked for over an hour watching a patch of scrub where a tiger was said to be lying up, and nothing came out of it. I turned round and found this stag standing a short way behind the vehicle, entirely still, watching us watch the bushes.
Sambar are the largest deer in Asia — a mature stag stands about 5 feet (1.5 m) at the shoulder and can weigh 700 pounds (320 kg) — and in Ranthambhore they are the tiger's principal prey. Their alarm call is what everyone in the park is really listening for; a sambar barking into the trees locates a tiger faster than any amount of watching does. The antlers carry three points to a side and are shed and regrown annually, among the fastest-growing tissue of any mammal — the ridging and wear visible on them is a single season's work.
A note on presentation: black-and-white landscape has traditionally lived on a matte surface, where tone and texture do the work. On a glossy surface the same image becomes something else — dimensional, luminous, contemporary. Both surfaces are available here; they are different objects rather than better and worse.
Gallery Metal — The next generation of the metal print: printed with Canon LUCIA PRO pigment inks and bonded to a rigid aluminium panel beneath a protective laminate, resolving finer detail and holding colour longer than dye-sublimation can. The modern process for images that reward close viewing. Here that holds the coarse coat and the grain of the antler at size, down to the fine hair along the ear and the wet of the muzzle. Glossy adds a hard coat for scratch resistance along with the fuller colour and depth; matte is anti-glare and holds sharp detail without softening it. Both are UV-protected for long-term display.
Also available in: Standard Acrylic version · TruLife Acrylic version · ChromaLuxe Metal version · Fine Art Paper version
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Indian sambar at Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan. We had been parked for over an hour watching a patch of scrub where a tiger was said to be lying up, and nothing came out of it. I turned round and found this stag standing a short way behind the vehicle, entirely still, watching us watch the bushes.
Sambar are the largest deer in Asia — a mature stag stands about 5 feet (1.5 m) at the shoulder and can weigh 700 pounds (320 kg) — and in Ranthambhore they are the tiger's principal prey. Their alarm call is what everyone in the park is really listening for; a sambar barking into the trees locates a tiger faster than any amount of watching does. The antlers carry three points to a side and are shed and regrown annually, among the fastest-growing tissue of any mammal — the ridging and wear visible on them is a single season's work.
A note on presentation: black-and-white landscape has traditionally lived on a matte surface, where tone and texture do the work. On a glossy surface the same image becomes something else — dimensional, luminous, contemporary. Both surfaces are available here; they are different objects rather than better and worse.
Gallery Metal — The next generation of the metal print: printed with Canon LUCIA PRO pigment inks and bonded to a rigid aluminium panel beneath a protective laminate, resolving finer detail and holding colour longer than dye-sublimation can. The modern process for images that reward close viewing. Here that holds the coarse coat and the grain of the antler at size, down to the fine hair along the ear and the wet of the muzzle. Glossy adds a hard coat for scratch resistance along with the fuller colour and depth; matte is anti-glare and holds sharp detail without softening it. Both are UV-protected for long-term display.
Also available in: Standard Acrylic version · TruLife Acrylic version · ChromaLuxe Metal version · Fine Art Paper version
Made to order · Allow 2–3 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.