Face into the wind

In this journal, I'd like to feature a photographer whose work I am enjoying at the moment, post a number of rather random but great favorites and say some words of thanks ...

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Other outstanding features

I end with thanks to NicolasEvariste for suggesting to the ends of the earth .... as a DD and to SheTakesPics for featuring it.

This photo was taken in the very remote Chalbi desert in northern Kenya during a survey for Grevy's zebras that I (and a team of volunteers) carried out in 2000.  This is a territorial male in the early morning when he was returning from drinking at the brackish spring that is his water supply.  We estimated that there were just over 2,500 Grevy's zebras in Kenya at that time; the estimate has since fallen to below 2,000 animals - representing just under a 90% decline in this species over the past forty years ...

One result of the DD was a huge swelling in the number of messages ... if this is the response to my DD then, heck, I don't know how those outstanding, prominent people on dA can keep up (and then do some creative work)!  Anyway, I'm trying to work my way through the backlog.  I am very grateful for all the s, s, comments and es that have come my way in the past month.  Forgive me, please, if I don't manage to thank you all. I do appreciate your support and, at least, try to visit your work.