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DISCOUNTS: We love Teachers! And we’re so grateful for all you do to educate our kids! From June 30 - September 30, 2024, anyone who works in education may enter the code “WELOVETEACHERS” to qualify for a 40% discount, site-wide! (This applies to retired educators, and anyone who works in schools. If you don’t work in education but you’d like to purchase a gift for someone who is, feel free to use the discount code too! It’s the honor system!)
CHARITABLE GIVING: We donate a portion of the sales of some of our images to various animal charities and conservation organizations. This will be specified in “The Story Behind the Shots”.
QUALITY ASSURANCE: All Giclee prints are printed to art gallery standards on high quality, acid-free papers with archival inks to ensure light fast durability. Each print is hand-signed by me in the border just beneath the image area. I check each one to ensure quality before it is sent to the buyer in either a flat photo envelope or mailing tube. Ship time varies depending on shipping location and print time. I recommend all photographs to be professionally mounted and framed.
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RETURN POLICY: All sales are final.
Two Giants — Open Edition Print
Two Giants — Open Edition Print
"Two Giants" was photographed in Amboseli, Kenya, October 2023.
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The Story behind the Shot:
We were guiding guests on a safari who wanted to see the big “super tuskers”, since there are only about 25 left in the world.
(A “super tusker” is defined in East Africa as elephants with at least one tusk weighing 100 pounds.)
We were with Craig, Amboseli's oldest super tusker, when this guy caught our attention since he was posing so nicely with Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain.
And though his tusks were broken, the special thing about shot is the snow on the mountain: there was once a large icecap that frosted the tip of the mountain, but -- due to global warming -- it's almost gone. Luckily for us, it snowed on the mountain the night before, giving it the appearance of the icecap, till the snow melted a few hours later!
Mt. Kilimanjaro is technically in Tanzania, it’s very close to the Kenyan border.
Elephants roam freely between the two countries: to them, it’s all one eco-system.
Unfortunately, when elephants cross into Tanzania, they are now in danger of being hunted.
In September 2024, just weeks before this image was taken, Tanzania ended a 30-year moratorium on trophy hunting elephants along the border with Kenya.
Between September 2023 and April 2024 — four of the Earths 25 remaining super tuskers have been killed for sport.
What can you do to help?
1. Sign the petition, appealing to Tanzania’s President Suluhu, to end trophy hunting along Kenya’s border:
https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/her_excellency_samia_suluhu_hassan_president_of_th_stop_trophy_hunting_in_n_tanzania_to_save_amboseli_s_migratory_elephants/
2. When you purchase this print, we’ll donate 50% of the proceeds to Amboseli Trust for Elephants.
3. Come on safari with us! We donate a portion of everyone’s cost toward elephant conservation, you’ll have an opportunity to interact with elephants at Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, and see elephants like this one in the wild, where they belong!
Photographed in Amboseli, Kenya, October 2023
Quality Assurance:
Open Edition Giclee Prints are printed to the same high printing standards as Limited Edition. Each print is hand signed by me in the border just beneath the image area. I check each one to ensure quality before it is sent to the buyer. All prints are printed to art gallery standards on high quality, acid-free papers with archival inks to ensure light fast durability. All sales are final.