The Stories Behind The Shots
A photograph is about so much more than the final image. It’s the story behind the shot, the months of the planning and the adrenalin rush through the final split seconds. Here William talks through some of his favourite images, how and where they were taken and the little details that make each shot what it is.
Michael: One of William’s best selling prints, the culmination of following the young super tusker for days on end.
The Guardian: One of William’s all time favourite images and his first from Amboseli.
Rumble in the Jungle: The moment that William owes his entire career, one entirely in nature’s hands.
Kalite: William’s first rhino print, taken mere feet from one of Africa’s oldest inhabitants.
Brothers: Often depicted as fierce, Brothers shows the gentler side of these revered animals.
Precipice: An image that’s as much about the clouds as it is the subject, a common theme in William’s work.
African Icons: The culmination of seven days lying on his stomach on the Amboseli lake bed, African Icons was William’s first sell out print.
Giant’s Footprints: An image that gets better and better the larger its printed.
One Step at a Time: The fastest land animal in the world, frozen at 1/1000th of a second
The Ark: It takes a lot to dwarf 30 elephants in a shot and still have the image made by a tiny acacia tree.
Craig: Taken from under the trunk of the most famous elephant alive today.
57: After months of attempts William managed to stitch the perfect three image panorama of a herd of walking elephant.