Finding a great subject in great light is why every wildlife photographer spends hours and hours out in the field. Yesterday evening, about 15 minutes before the sun dropped below the horizon, we found four young lion cubs on a high west-facing dam wall.  The mathematics was quite simple. Cubs + 15 minutes to sunset [...]

When is enough really enough? This weekend I spent a bit of time following the links to various different photography sites.  I am not referring to people’s own sites where they showcase their own work but rather photo sharing sites where you can upload your images where a community of people then rate of comment [...]

Parenting Madikwe Game Reserve, 4 April 2010, 18h03 Nikon D300, Nikon 80-200 @ 200mm, 1/320, f/2.8, ISO 800 ___________________________ Grabbed this shot a few evenings ago as a pride of lions walked down a road straight towards us.  The five cubs were all over their mom which made for some very funny moments.  She tried, [...]

Busy week, busy day so gonna make this a quick one. Judging by the comments Mitchell Krog’s guest post yesterday was very well received.  Apart from truly amazing images Mitchell shares some amazing insights into his approach to wildlife photography – thanks Mitchell!  My original post today was going to be on mistakes, or missed [...]

Sometimes things just work out and when you have options it’s just so much better. Yesterday morning we spent almost two hours with a pride of lions consisting of two large males, two females and five cubs of about 4 months of age.  Great sighting which included lions feeding on a wildebeest, lions roaring, cubs [...]

A while ago I did a post on African icons and which animals stand out as truly African. Some of the other species that was mentioned as possible icons included giraffe, cheetah and elephant but by looking back at Photo-Africa over the last few weeks it seems that lions still rank up there as some [...]