It’s not always about the Big 5. Unfortunately, from a wildlife photography point of view it seems to be.  Many years of tourism and travel marketing has left us all so enamored with the Big 5 and rightfully so.  They are what makes an African safari unique. It it was makes us want to go [...]

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 [...]

Two weeks ago I posted Wildlife Photography to View, Share and Enjoy. The aim behind that post was to share the websites of various wildlife and nature photographers whose work I enjoy.  With wildlife photography being something that should be shared, here goes with the second edition more websites of some amazing wildlife photographers. Andy [...]

When you photograph something, do you really want your camera or computer to have a say as to the final look and feel of your image? I have said this before, and I am sure I’ll say it again – post processing your digital images is not something you should think of doing.  It is [...]

It’s Thursday and for the last 8 months, on a Thursday, I have been featuring guest bloggers sharing their images, experience and knowledge on Photo-Africa. Actually, it does not sound quite right saying I ‘featured’ them as all the guest bloggers I have had on this site are amazing photographers in their own right and [...]

Nike hit it on the head with one of the most well known taglines out there but have you ever thought about your photography with that line in mind? Just do it.  Just take the photo.  Don’t worry about what people are going to think about it. Just do it. I am going to borrow [...]

Exposing your images correctly should be one of the goals of every photographer. In wildlife photography this means creating images that reflect the real scene you were faced with.  You might have done everything correctly but there is still one problem – your camera’s metering system cannot think. Regardless of what you are photographing, no [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]