A week spent at the Luangwa River Lodge included several game drives by boat. We floated past these three female pukus, which have arranged themselves perfectly for us, integrating three bodies into one. Their heads are in perfect relationship as all stare intently at me. The heads and ears create a rhythmically repetitive horizontal movement, echoing the flow of the river and the grass they stand in. The afternoon light outlines their bodies, and contrasts their dark brown forms to the rich green grass. I used my spot meter to expose for that grass, which caused the muddy riverbank behind them to become virtually black. If I had used normal matrix metering, the image would have equally balanced between green grass and brown mud and the impact of the three puku would have been greatly reduced. This image speaks of family, and of constant watchfulness. Puku, like all of Africa’s ungulates, are vulnerable to predation by lion, leopard and crocodile.