Dawn. Laikipia. Giza. 🖤

Laikipia, Kenya. Close-up portraits of the world’s most famous melanistic leopard and a beauty that has stolen the heart of every wildlife photographer who has ever been lucky enough to find her.

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Meet the Huntresses of the Night!!

The Huntresses of the Night are a variety band that primarily plays rock, punk, and metal as well as occasionally playing Old Norse and Gaelic folk music! (Think Wardruna, SKÁLD, etc.)

Raven (Hrafnhildur Arnóradóttir) is the Lead Singer, she hails from Egilsstaðir, Iceland. She Co-Founded the band with Lilith after they met online.

Lilith Grimm is the Percussionist who also specializes in metal vocals, she was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. After meeting Raven and founding the band they got an apartment together in Washington and are in a steady long-term relationship. Lilith is also a tattoo artist in her spare time.

Ratri Chansiri was born in Thailand and traveled a lot in her youth and adult life. She is the Lead Guitarist for the band and met the band online when she was living in China.

Eris Starr was born and raised in Bar Harbor, Maine where she briefly went to the College of the Atlantic before realizing college wasn't for her. She is the Bassist for the band, she met Lilith and Raven when they visited Bar Harbor on a vacation, she worked as a barista at the time and met them at the coffee shop.

Laikipia, Kenya

A rare melanistic leopard, also known as a black panther, on the prowl. This two-year-old female, called Giza by local trackers, first appeared in near the Ewaso Narok River 18 months ago. She was delivered in a litter of two cubs to a more usual spotted leopard. Melanism is the rarer opposite of albinism that occurs in humans and animals. Giza has grown accustomed to people and tolerates the occasional vehicle following her through her territory. She is thought to be the first black leopard in Africa to have been photographed without the use of camera traps