I’ve had a striking realisation today – I have become a twitcher! How did I come to this conclusion? Well.. 1. I adore birds. 2. I take pride in the fact that I have started to recognise and recall the names for both foreign…
This is one of my favourite shots from our recent UK photography trips – it was taken aboard the Yorkshire Belle off the coast of Flamborough, East Yorkshire, UK. We’d set sail on an RSPB puffin cruise hoping to spot…
Watching the build up to the 2012 Olympic Games got me thinking about which new sports we could introduce for our furry friends and which animals could be gold medal winners. Flicking through the Taraji Blue photo galleries I stumbled across…
It’s more than worth a hike along the RSPB reserves at Bempton Cliffs towards the end of June and in July because you’re likely to see puffins resting on the cliffs and returning from the sea. You’ll have to look hard though…
I adored our recent trip to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park in South Africa – I loved the landscape, the solitude and the sense of adventure and survival it offered. I knew it’d be hard work to obtain animal sightings and I was prepared for the sparseness of the environment. I’d set my expectations of locating big…
This weekend we took the opportunity to remind ourselves of what precious and rare wildlife we have on our own doorstep. Yesterday afternoon we embarked on a fantastic RSPB seabird cruise along the coast of East Yorkshire, from Bridlington up…
This is a renewal of a previous post – I have been reflecting a lot recently about the people we meet on our travels and I wanted to re-share this post… I knew very little about Jordan before we visited, and I…
Regular followers of Taraji Blue will know that I have an obsession with macro photography – especially insects. That’s why, on our recent trip to the Kalahari desert, I took time out from spotting big cats and focussed…
Ok, so when I set myself a bucket list in January 2012 I decided what things I wanted to achieve by the time I turned 40. Now not all of them are photography or wildlife related, but two of them…
We tend to upload new shots to TarajiBlue in projects and in bulk when they are ready, so unless you’re one of our loyal followers who regulary delves into our TarajiBlue photo galleries you might not have…