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 [...]

Welcome to July! A few days late, but here goes with this month’s free wallpaper downloads.  As always there are a few for your desktop or laptop, with a handy little calendar, and also a few for you iPhone. All four the desktops are available in both a large (2560 x 1600) and small (1280 [...]

Photography can be as easy or as difficult as you choose to make it. You can choose how much you want to learn, how much you want to push yourself and how far you want to take your craft. The learning part is easy.  In yesterday’s guest post Phil Gould shared five solid photography tips [...]

Every now and then you hear of something that you just have to support! Jack is 9 years old and has already raised $7,000 to save a tortured elephant in Thailand.  Viv Lanting, Jack’s mom, has helped him put together a website where they are selling photographs of elephants from amazing photographers such as Michael [...]

This last week has been pretty slow from a wildlife photography point of view. In stead of digging in the archives I thought I would post a shot I got yesterday at the lodge.  Shot at midday, when most people would tell you to put your camera away. The image below shows Tsokwane, one of [...]

Photographic inspiration is a funny thing. A few mornings ago I woke up early and just drove.  Why?  Not sure really but I was awake and my head was overly busy so I grabbed my camera and drove.  Doing this in the African bush is of course the ultimate in photographic self indulgence but for [...]

It doesn’t happen too often – a case of being in the right place at the right time – asked to shoot stills for an elephant research group based in the U.K. who had a field day in the Chobe, Botswana. Here’s the cut though – I had to take the standard issue elephant shots [...]

The last week has been very cold and wet and photographic opportunities was few and far between. It has literally been raining for the whole week and during the times we were not getting soaked on the vehicle we were sitting in the lodge having red wine.  Not  a bad thing but, most of the [...]

Yesterday I saw a leopard. It was a beautiful leopard, relaxed, sitting on a log not too far from us.  I did not manage to get a picture.  Actually, I did not even reach for my camera. In wildlife photography the initial urge of photographing everything that moves eventually gives way to a more measured [...]

A day early but since I am not going to have time tomorrow, here goes with the wallpaper downloads for April 2010. I had my wallpapers all finalized and ready but during the last two weeks I have had a blast photographing in and around Johannesburg and the Krugersdorp Game Reserve so I decided to [...]