Hayden Turner, Wisdom and Trust (ANIMALS 2025)

For 25 years, I dreamed of this exact moment... a silent breeding heard procession of desert-adapted elephants moving in harmony across the stark, open plains of Namibia, with the sculpted dunes and mountains rising behind them like ancient sentinels. This image is more than a photograph to me; it’s a memory etched into my soul. It holds everything I love about Namibia: its vastness, its resilience, its wild, raw beauty. In their slow, deliberate steps, I see the wisdom and trust of this land — timeless, enduring, and breathtakingly beautiful.

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