Mystery

If you are open to it, mystery will come. If you are not, why should it, actually ?

– Lucille Clifton

Mystery – for the shadows, the darkness, the intrigue…the unknown.

Calm
Grace
Magnificence

The mystery that is the elusive leopard. Everywhere around us. Yet, rarely seen.

Masai Mara, Kenya

Masai Mara, March

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Even the ordinary task of drinking water is fraught with danger. This caracal is quite cautious and wary about what risks the night might carry.

Lentorre, Kenya

Masai Mara, March

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The magic that light, darkness and dust can conjure !

Solio, Kenya

Masai Mara, March

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Something seems to have caught the attention of this mountain hare.

Vauldalen, Norway

Masai Mara, March

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The giraffe stays in the shadows as the perfect spiral catches the light as it finishes it’s drinking spell.

Lentorre, Kenya

Masai Mara, March

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The forest is always watching you.

Always.

Occasionally, you might spot them.

Bhigwan, India

Masai Mara, March

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Mystery comes in various forms.

Will this polar bear dive in ?

What is she searching for in the depths of the sea ?

Does she have any chance of finding it ?

Svalbard, Norway

Masai Mara, March

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Dawn’s mist.

Morning dew.

Surreal light.

And a cheetah on the prowl.

Masai Mara, Kenya

Masai Mara, March

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Macbeth’s Three Witches.

Three Stellar Eagles keep a ghostly vigil.

Hokkaido, Japan

Masai Mara, March

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Mystery doesn’t need darkness.

Hornoya, Norway

Masai Mara, March

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