This year has started very productively for me and if things can keep on like this… exciting times ahead! As promised last year, the free Photo-Africa desktop wallpapers are back! This month sees three very different images that you can download to beautify your desktop. It’s like a bit of Africa on your pc. Each [...]
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Don’t Forget the Basics
Elephant Scene Nikon D300, Nikon 80-400 VR @ 230mm, 1/200, f/5.6, ISO 500 Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa ___________________________ We all try and push the boundaries. We try new things. We try to take better images. We keep on trying. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, and it is this drive that keeps us [...]
Baby Elephant Takes a Dive
Wildlife photography is great in that it demands so much from us. Apart from the technical challenges of low light, camera settings and composing your images you also need to rely on your content to make a good image great. On the flip side, there are time when the content is the only focus of [...]
Photographing Elephants
Elephants are one of the most amazing animals to photograph, because they are always doing something, and yesterday we did so for an entire afternoon! The bush is still very dry, so to sit at a waterhole watching a massive herd of elephants, around 70 strong, with 5 other photographers is absolute photographic bliss. On [...]
Don’t Write Off Your Old Images
Doesn’t this old boy just pop out of the frame? When I took this photograph I clicked the shutter because I liked the composition of the old guy next to the tree. I was not too happy with the overly bright light coming through the branches but in wildlife photography you normally cannot have it [...]
