Bold 1 - I know that one!Thanks Peach, Unfortunately when I shouted "look at me you... f'ing animal" it wouldn't look up So I took what I could. The reason for not cropping in further from the right was purely to make sure that the Gazelle looking at me remained central in the image.
I have the night sky, and animals feeding from the land. For me that is earth but I guess it is down to interpretation.
Thanks for the comments, appreciate any feedback.
Bold 2 - all the photographs did meet the theme, but when I was choosing 3 photos (I could have chosen more pictures easily, but it dilutes the vote a bit), I used meeting the theme as quite a "weighted" part of my voting choice, because there are photographers of differing abilities here with very different experience and equipment, so meeting the theme did count for quite a bit in my thought processes. I actually found your photo incredibly appealing but I was mean and found fault.