This is my favorite photo by Nick Brandt because it looks like the tree is about to fall on the lion but you know that is won't. It is contradicting the law of gravity.A rule that is really prominent in this photo is framing because the tree is to the side and above the lion creating the frame. There could also be lines but I am not quite sure.
Nick Brandt uses a Pentax67 II with 120 film and a portrait or wide angle lens, this is important because it allows him to get close to the animals or far away to capture his pictures. He takes these photos because he wants to show animals in their state of being, not just action shots so that everything can be preserved about the animal once it goes extinct.
"There is also something deeply, emotionally stirring and affecting about the plains of Africa—those vast, green rolling plains punctuated by graphically perfect acacia trees under the huge skies." -Nick Brandt
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