Should we be concerned about the future of conservation? The reason I ask this is that last night a few of us went to a talk hosted by the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) and I was very disappointed with the turnout. No no, don’t get me wrong. The talk, by Andrew Jenkins of the Western Cape Raptor [...]
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Pay Attention To Your Backgrounds
Some photographers just try too hard. Let me explain. In my mind there are two main types of images of images can you create when you go on safari. The first is a ‘proof’ shot. This is the happy snappy kind of images a great deal of people come back with and all it does [...]
Photographing a River Crossing in the Masai Mara
Unpredictable as it may be, nature has a certain rhythm and by taking some time to observe, to learn, you can start predicting when certain moments can happen. The moment when you should click the shutter. A lion, before yawning, will give you a host of signals before finally dropping it’s jaw and giving you [...]
Sorting out the Chaos
Since returning from our photographic expedition to the Masai Mara last week I have been waiting for a moment to sit down and start going through my images. After a busy week back in Johannesburg that moment has arrived and as I thought – it’s going to take quite a while to work through all [...]
Do You Get Lucky or Do You Know?
Is this is a good image? Nikon D3s, Nikon 200-400mm VRII @ 400mm, 1/640, f/6.3, ISO 320 I would like to think so. To me this image shows the viewer just a small bit of the chaos that takes place during a river crossing in the Masai Mara. There are implied diagonal lines, nice contrast [...]
