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 [...]

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 [...]

Black Lion Madikwe Game Reserve, 14 August 2010, 16h59 Nikon D300, Nikon 80-200 @200mm, 1/80, f/7.1, ISO 1600 __________________________ Yesterday I sat at a waterhole, with Andy Biggs and Grant Marcus, waiting for a pair of rhino to drink.  A giraffe arrived and then we sat waiting for him to drink.  Lots of waiting.  All [...]

The goal in photography is to have your blacks black and your whites white. This is what most photography courses, books and workshops will tell you.  It leaves your images looking more life like.  It gives your images more ‘punch’. No the reality is that most of the time your camera will not be able [...]

Time off is a great thing.  And perspective is even better! You see, even though I spend most my time working in a Big 5 game reserve it is, contrary to popular belief, not a full time holiday.  Yes, our neighbors include lions and elephants  and the sunsets seems to last forever but at times [...]

Taking a portrait of an animal is in many ways the same as taking a portrait of a person. Eye contact, the slight tilt of the head and soft lighting can take a good image to the next level.  All too often people will have the opportunity to photograph a lion in the wild, take [...]

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 [...]

Wildlife photography is more of a marathon then a flat out sprint. There are most definitely times when everything happens at once and you have to keep up with the action by keeping the shutter going but most of the time you need patience.  You need to sit, watch, enjoy and wait for those magical [...]

Look for the bigger picture. That is something that we don’t always do enough of when we are out in the field photographing wildlife.  It’s always about bigger lenses, more focal length and getting closer to the subject.  Absolutely no problem with this and I also love getting in nice and tight on some shots [...]