Dear Friends,

I’m finally back home after an exciting two months of photography and filming in Indonesia. Its time to share a few highlights with you, and I’m going to start with some exciting news from Gunung Palung in Borneo, where I’ve been documenting my wife Cheryl Knott’s orangutan research for 25 years. Her project studies the entire population of wild orangutans in “GP” as we call it, but we get to know some individuals especially well, and none is more familiar to our team than a female named Walimah.

Featured Photos: Walimah – Then and Now

The first image was taken twenty years ago in 1999, when Walimah was a newborn infant. Walimah’s mother had a home range close to the research camp, and so we encountered her often and Walimah grew up seeing researchers on the ground below her as a normal part of her environment. So she has never been afraid of humans, and has been a great subject for my photography.

Some of you may be familiar, however, with the tragic turn of events in Walimah’s life in 2015. After the highlight of having her first baby in April that year, she was the apparent victim of an infanticidal attack by a rogue male orangutan (our best guess of what happened), and her first baby was lost. This story is documented in our 2016 film on NatGeo Wild Channel called “Mission Critical: Orangutan on the Edge” (and in a scientific paper by Cheryl and her team: Possible Male Infanticide in Wild Orangutans and a Re-evaluation of Infanticide Risk).

Well, Walimah is now having a second chance! She finally became pregnant again last year, and has a healthy new baby born this year in May! The images below are a couple of my favorites from my recent trip. Walimah’s new baby appears to be a female, and is now three months old and doing well. She is a great symbol of hope for the future of the orangutans of Gunung Palung, a conservation area that is turning out to be a stronghold for the critically endangered Bornean Orangutan. I’m already planning to keep going back to GP regularly over the next few years to document Walimah’s baby as she grows up.

You can learn more about Cheryl’s research and conservation work at Gunung Palung by checking out her website www.savegporangutans.org and following her teams’ work at @saveGPorangutans. Please consider supporting their hard work partnering with the National Park and surrounding communities to safeguard GP as an orangutan sanctuary for the long term.

Gallery Update:

I’m also launching an orangutan print gallery today at my art store TimLamanFineArt, so please check it out. I’ll be contributing profits from sale of these prints to saveGPorangutans.org, so please consider making a purchase to support orangutan conservation.

Here is a glimpse of some of the images in the new Orangutan gallery.

Thanks for reading and best wishes to all.
Tim

Dear Friends,

This is it – two days left to celebrate 1 million Instagram followers with me by scoring a great deal on my fine art prints!

Here’s what you can save:

INDIVIDUAL PRINTS – 33% OFF

12×12″ = $150 $100
15×15″ = $225 $150
18×18″ = $340 $226

PRINT COLLECTIONS – EXTRA 10%-20% OFF WITH CODE WALLART

Set of any 4, 15×15″ = $900 $540
Set of any 4, 18×18″ = $1,360 $814

Set of any 6, 15×15″ = $1,350 $720
Set of any 6, 18×18″ = $2,040 $1,085

Shop the Sale »

This is one of the best discounts I’ve ever offered (particularly the sets of 4 and 6), but I wanted to make this one special.

So thanks one more time to everyone who has enjoyed my work on Instagram, and I hope these prints make a perfect addition to your wallspace.1

All the best,

-Tim

P.S. – The sale ends July 3 at midnight. Any questions? Hit reply and let me know. And don’t forget code WALLART to get an extra 10% off sets of 4 and an extra 20% off sets of 6!

Dear Friends,

In case you haven’t heard, I’ve been running a massive print sale in honor of hitting 1 million followers on Instagram!

And today I’m making it even bigger with two announcements:

• New size! I’ve heard your emails asking for larger sizes, and have added a new 18×18″ option to my store – available for the first time ever. 
• Collector discount! Use code WALLART at checkout for an additional 10% off any 4 prints from my Instagram sale, or an additional 20% off any 6 prints. Applies only to 15×15″ and 18×18″ sizes. 

So on top of 33% off each Instagram-favorite print, you can now score an additional 10-20% off for buying sets! To maximize your savings, I recommend a set of 6 which looks fantastic over a couch, bed, or table.

Shop the “Thanks a Million” Sale »

I hope this satisfies everyone who has been inquiring about larger sizes as well as a potential discount for ordering a full set of prints.

Thank you for all the support, and remember – the sale ends July 3! 

All the best,
Tim

Dear Friends,

In honor of hitting 1 million followers on Instagram, I’m running a massive print sale!

Here’s the deal:

Through July 3, 2019, ten of the most-liked images from my Instagram feed are available as prints at special, discounted prices:

→12×12″ for $100 (33% off)
→15×15″ for $150 (33% off)

The prints look fantastic both alone and in multi-print arrangements. Each is digitally signed by me on the white border.

I’ll link you to my super easy-to-use online store below where you can browse the collection and take advantage of the sale. I hope you’ll find the perfect image or set of images for your wall space. 

Shop the “Thanks a Million” Sale »

Thanks so much for all of your support and interest in my photographs and stay tuned from some surprises as the sale rolls along.

-Tim

P.S. – Here’s a peek at 5 of the 10 available prints. To see the rest, check out the full gallery.

Thanks to your interest in my photos and stories, I recently hit 1,000,000 followers on Instagram!

It’s been a busy few days here in Indonesia, but I’ve had a little bit of downtime to think about how to properly celebrate the occasion, and I think I came up with the perfect idea…

I’ll fill you in tomorrow – stay tuned, and thanks so much to everyone who helped me reach this incredible milestone. 

All the best, Tim

Dear Friends,

It’s been an eventful spring and I feel like I’ve barely had my feet on the ground.  As I write this I’m on a plane headed back toward one of my favorite parts of the world – the mega-diversity country of Indonesia for two full months of filming and photography.  I’ll be pursuing birds-of-paradise once again in Papua, working on underwater coverage in Raja Ampat, and then heading to Borneo to continue documenting orangutans at Gunung Palung, especially the female Walimah, who has just had a baby.  So exciting times ahead, and I’ll share images and stories as I can here and on social media.

Back in May I had the opportunity to co-lead another wildlife safari to Tanzania with my good friend and former professor Eldon Greij, for the Hope College Alumni Global Travel Program.  Every safari leads to amazing wildlife encounters, but I’d like to share a few images from a truly extraordinary day that we experienced.

Featured Image: Mortal Enemies – Lions and Buffalo

Witnessing lions making a kill was extraordinary, but at another point in the day, we saw that the lions do not always have it their way.  We came upon a lion hunt that appeared to have gone awry.  Lions were pursuing a herd of buffalo, but instead of isolating a buffalo to attack, a young male lion found himself surrounded by a herd of very angry buffalo who lashed out at him.  For several minutes, we witnessed the incredible power of the buffalo, as they hooked the helpless lion with their horns and tossed him repeatedly into the air.  It was very apparent why buffalo are considered one of the most dangerous animals in Africa.  We thought the lion was going to be killed on the spot, but after about ten minutes of this, the buffalo abandoned him and he staggered to the bushes.  It was hard to imagine he would live for long.

At times these scenes were not pleasant to watch, I will admit.  Nature can be harsh.  But it was real, and it was amazing to witness the cycle of life in a place that is still wild.  We need places like that on earth, and it is good for us to visit them.  As Tennyson wrote, on this day, we truly witnessed “Nature red in tooth and claw”. 

We also witnessed a lot of beauty that day.  I’ll leave you with a tender moment between a mother and baby zebra as we headed for the crater exit late in the afternoon.  After all the death, it was refreshing to focus on new life as this unforgettable day came to a close.

Gallery Update:

Thanks to all of your interest in my photographs and stories, I have reached a milestone of 1 Million followers on Instagram.  I’d like to show my appreciation by offering a selection of your favorite images from my Instagram feed as discounted prints. Soon you can own one or more of the images you enjoyed on Instagram to hang on your wall.  The updates to the website will be completed soon.

Thanks for reading and all the best,  Tim