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Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda 2019 I have travelled north from Kigali to the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda 6 times over the last 8 years and I have generally failed to come home with anything that does Africa's "Jurassic Park" justice. There are many reasons - including - of course - my own ineptitude. A big issue is that these magnificent mountain #gorillas are only accessible in mid morning and if the sun is out, the rainforest floor is not an ideal canvas on which to work - it's a nasty cocktail of overexposed and underexposed. Then there are compositional puzzles - it is difficult to have a sense of proximity and a sense of place in the same image - the forest can be exceptionally dense and this works against offering a wider contextual narrative. In my experience it does not pay to be greedy visually here. Thirdly, the encounter is so other worldly that it takes time to work out what to actually do with the camera - and every cameraman - no matter who they may work for - onl