A wet-season safari in Zambia offers photographers abundant sightings of African wildlife in an emerald green setting under cloud-streaked skies. I have tried to take this image beyond just another wildlife sighting. I offer a surrealistic impression rather than a descriptive landscape. The twilight hovers between being there and not there, creating a painterly aura through muted color that makes this image seem less real, and more symbolic of a world that may be slowly slipping away. The two elephants are incongruously reminiscent of ancient mastodons upon the land. The incongruity of the dead tree standing amidst lush green surroundings implies the presence of death as well as life, while the horizontal streaks of clouds in the sky offer a counterpoint to the vertical threadbare branches. It is an image that takes us back in time, yet also implies an ecosystem in jeopardy.