Say cheese. Very, very quietly.
Its head is down: walk closer.
Its head comes up: keep still!
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On a laptop: arrows or WASD to walk · Space takes a photo · Enter starts
Creep up on the animals and take their photo. Walk while a head is down, keep still when it comes up, and get as close as you dare: the bigger the animal is in the photo, the more it is worth.
You have until sunset: three and a half minutes. The light turns gold as the time runs out.
The frame in the middle is your camera. A photo is exactly what is inside it. Press the big round button to take one.
An animal with its head down cannot see you. That is when you walk. Near an animal you go on tiptoe by yourself.
An eye over its head means it is looking. Keep still. You can turn on the spot as much as you like: only walking counts.
A “?” means it saw you move. The ring round it fills up while you keep walking, and when it is full the animal runs. Keep still and the ring empties again.
It cannot see you through a bush or a rock. But the camera cannot see through one either.
The click is loud. A near animal hears it and looks straight at you, which makes a very good second photo. Click again while it is staring and it runs.
Big, looking at you, and in the middle is the perfect photo. It is worth less if part of the animal is outside the frame, or something is in the way.
Your album keeps your best photo of each kind, and your score is what they add up to. There are six kinds, and a rare one is worth two or three times as much.
There is no map. The mountain is always north.
Photo Safari is the playground game of Statues, with a camera: you may only move while nobody is looking.