The word “safari” means “journey” in Swahili. An African safari represents of course a journey from Boston to Africa. Yet it also represents, at least to me, a personal journey inside oneself. It is a movement from a time-bound, mechanized world to a timeless and unrestricted one where we can observe the beauty and the grandeur of the animals in their natural setting. It is a chance for each of us to awaken our souls to an intense and vibrant aspect of nature that is disappearing rapidly from the planet. These animal portraits were taken in South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Namibia.