Chris Banotai · Wildlife Photographer & Conservation Ecologist
Thinking
Wild
Wildlife photography rooted in conservation science, fieldwork, and the quiet moments that make a place feel truly wild.
View the workThis photograph is available →Wildlife photography rooted in conservation science, fieldwork, and the quiet moments that make a place feel truly wild.
View the workThis photograph is available →Years spent studying mammals in southern Africa taught me to slow down, pay attention, and understand animals as part of a much larger story.
Thinking Wild Photo grew from that same curiosity. The work now moves from elephants, lions, giraffes, and zebras to foxes, cranes, and mountain landscapes—always centered on behavior, place, scale, intimacy, and the experience of being present with something wild.
Pattern, expression, and the improbable elegance of a very strange animal.
Sandhill cranes moving between water, sky, reflection, and evening light.
A fox among stone—a compact study of color, posture, and alertness.
Mountains, weather, water, and the wild places around the animals.
Thinking Wild now includes statement wall pieces, affordable mini prints, hardcover Field Notes, postcards, and Thinking (Wild) Caps—all built around original wildlife and landscape photography.
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