Cheetah Mother at Sunset on the Namiri Plains, Tanzania

PlateReading the HorizonNamiri Plains, Tanzania · 2025

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Open edition · Printed on demand. Not numbered.

Printed as a pigment giclée on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, a cotton fine art paper finished with a barium sulfate coating in the tradition of classic darkroom prints. The image is laid down with Epson UltraChrome Pro pigments, six colors and three shades of black, at 1,440 dpi, and the baryta surface pulls blacks to a depth few papers reach. Shadow detail stays readable, contrast holds, and color sits with real density.

My glossy prints carry the saturation and bright surface of a photographic finish. The baryta does something closer to the darkroom: a cotton sheet with weight and tooth, a restrained shine rather than a hard reflection, and the depth that comes from ink meeting a barium-coated fiber. It carries no optical brighteners, so what looks right on the wall today still reads true years from now. For an animal photographed in low light, where the frame lives or dies in its blacks, it is the surface I trust most.

Specifications

Paper: Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, 100% cotton, 315 gsm Finish: baryta, high gloss with a distinct texture Black density: Dmax 2.6, with no optical brighteners Process: pigment giclée, Epson UltraChrome Pro, 1,440 dpi White border: optional, adjustable from roughly 0.4 to 4.7 inches Sizes: up to roughly 118 x 41 inches (300 x 105 cm)

Size

13 × 19 in$250

Paper

Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta

Quantity

Total$250

From the field

On our last evening near Namiri Plains, the light almost spent, a mother cheetah walked out of the grass and stopped to scan the plains while the sun turned the whole field to gold. I had a few minutes before the dark took it. Cheetahs need wide, open ground to survive, and that ground is thinning year by year. An image like this is a record of a place while it still holds animals like her.

Jonathan Gardner

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Printed on demand: Every open-edition print is made to order. Not numbered.
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