10% of the proceeds from William’s print sales are donated to his partnered conservation charity, David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. An organisation focussed on the conservation of wildlife in Africa and Asia through an unyielding, holistic approach.

With William’s style deeply focussed on wildlife in its environment, working with organisations of this calibre and determination is a natural fit and prints are proudly embossed with the foundations logo next to William’s signature.

To date William’s work has been used to raise over £80,000 for a variety of charitable organisations.

For the last few years my portfolio has lacked a strong zebra image. As with giraffe, I find them challenging subjects, their natural scepticism of people makes it difficult to get the required proximity I usually try to work within.

Earlier this year I was back in Amboseli, as I often find myself these days, and while waiting for a herd of elephants to cross the now famous lake bed, my guide, Eric Ole Kalama and I watched a group of four zebra running at speed on the horizon.

For animals that usually look to conserve energy this was unusual, but the dust their narrow hooves kicked up in their wake gave I us both a simultaneous ‘light bulb’ moment.

“That’s our shot”, I said to Eric who as ever, just smiled and said, “Kabisa. Twende.” (Absolutely, let’s go)

We followed the zebra, who had slowed to a trot as we drew near, and waited for the race to resume, positioning ourselves against the sun so the light rays would add an additional dimension to the image and illuminate the eventual dust.

As we repositioned, trying to stay parallel to the group at all times, the lead zebra took off, followed swiftly by the next two. It happened so fast I missed all three, but the fourth, the one pictured here, took an extra second to get going and as a result gave me just enough time to get the shot - crucially all four hooves are off the ground, as if flying, the only evidence it ever touched the ground the puff of dust in the background.