Zebra camouflage is not about hiding — it is about breaking the outline. Expose for the lit flank and the trick performs itself: half the animal walks off into black, and the stripes stop being a coat and become the whole subject. She turned her head back at the right moment. I underexposed and let the shadows do the rest.

Zebra, Undone
Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa · December 2022
1D X Mark II, 400 millimetres, f 5.6, 1/500 of a second, ISO 125