The photographs in this Highlights gallery are drawn from moments that still feel vivid, even after so many years.

Not because they were the most dramatic, but because they carry the feeling of being there: the hush before sunrise on the plains, the weight of heat and dust in the afternoon air, the long amber light at dusk when the land seems to pause and catch its breath.

There are river crossings, predators, and elephants moving through baobab shadows, but what stays with us is something quieter: the immense scale of the Serengeti and the sense that life unfolds here on its own terms, and the realization that we were guests in a world that does not center on us.

This small collection is not meant to catalog what we saw. It is simply a handful of images that, for us, still hold the atmosphere, the light, and the feeling of that extraordinary place.

Enjoy.