Known locally as Ingwe, meaning “pure sovereignty”, the leopard can still be found on farmland as well as other habitats throughout Southern Africa where they co-exist with their human neighbours depending on the attitudes of both parties. Game Reserves that are inadequate in size to hold most big cats such as lion and cheetah, show [...]

Oryx Namib-Naukluft National Park, 30 October 2008, 10h32 Nikon D300, Sigma 28-200 @ 135mm, 1/640, f/8, ISO 200 (Click thumbnail for larger view) ___________________________ Two day ago I went on about photographing other animals than just the Big 5. I photographed this Oryx in Namibia a few years ago and, even though it is not [...]

I photographed this elephant yesterday. Surely, this has got to be one of the most seen elephant close ups.  Click on the thumbnail for a larger view just to make sure. So why click the shutter?  Why post it? Well, a couple of reasons really. – It was a great sighting. – Loved the look [...]

It’s not always about the Big 5. Unfortunately, from a wildlife photography point of view it seems to be.  Many years of tourism and travel marketing has left us all so enamored with the Big 5 and rightfully so.  They are what makes an African safari unique. It it was makes us want to go [...]

If last week was rhino week on Photo-Africa, looking at the images this week it must be lion week! This is not intentional at all.  You see, when I sit down to write a blog one of two things happen.  I either have an idea of what I want to write about and then choose [...]

Photography is about sharing the beauty of nature.  About telling a story. The difficulty is to tell your story in one frame.  How do you include everything in just one frame? Most of the time it is virtually impossible to tell the whole story in one single photograph.  You will normally have to choose a [...]

Leopard Cub Madikwe Game Reserve, 28 December 2007, 17h53 Nikon D50, Sigma 50-500 @500m, 1/500, f/6.7, ISO 800 ___________________________ The leopard is definitely the holy grail of African wildlife photography. I photographed the above youngster a few years ago and as I was looking through an image for this post it caught my eye.  The [...]

Finding a wildlife subject is one thing.  The background you have behind it is a whole different story. All too often we get so stuck on finding a subject that we forget all about what’s behind it. I have had many times out in the field when we sat watching a sky, a reflection in [...]

Scarred Lion Madikwe Game Reserve, 21 August 2010, 10h23 Nikon D300, Nikon 80-200 @ 200mm, 1/3200, f/5, ISO 320, -2/3 EV ___________________________ No matter how many times you see it, a male lion in the wild is truly a spectacular sight. From a photography point of view, a large male lion also ranks right up [...]

Wild Dog Pup Madikwe Game Reserve, 22 December 2008, 06h23 Nikon D300, Sigma 50-500 @ 230mm, 1/400, f/6.3, ISO 400 ___________________________ Seeing this whole week has been made up of Daily Photo posts, why stop now? Finding and photographing one of Africa’s most endangered animals has got to be on the top of every wildlife [...]