The hippo footprint is easy to spot -- not as big as an elephant's, yet featuring four toes. Hippos came up at night to feed near both of our camps. While having dinner at our Puku Ridge tented camp, we watched a huge hippo graze its way into the bushes just outside of our dining room. Hippos may look gentle and slow, but if provoked, they can behave violently. We held our breaths as it disappeared into the night. This image does not show the huge beast. Instead it uses abstraction to imply its ponderous presence. The tracks stimulate the imagination, causing us to imagine the hippo as a somewhat prehistoric beast, seeing it in our mind’s eye moving through the muddy ground before us. I use perspective control to emphasize the size of a hippo’s foot by employing a semi-wideangle 35mm focal length. It makes the tracks closest to us very large, and they gradually dwindle in size in comparison as they recede into the background.