The gaze of a mother lioness can be immediately translated. The compassion seen in the eyes is matched with a stare that catches your soul and communicates a strength of character. Here the mother displays a ‘do not disturb’ attitude…
I have been catching up post processing a backlog of my macro photography shots recently – and here’s a pick of the bunch. I hope you like them… This image (below) was taken in the garden of a rental cottage…
At the break of dawn the mother returned with her cubs to the carcass of the wildebeest slaughtered just hours before. As she dragged the carcass across the plains, the cubs preyed, pounced and stalked. The mother, somewhat wearily, encouraged…
The struggle for survival is ever apparent in Africa. This lioness had already lost the rest of her cubs to other predators. Our hearts went out to her. This was a solemn reminder that even the queen of African predators…
Lion cubs rely on their mothers to not only protect, but strengthen them and teach them the skills essential for survival. This small cub, barely months old, displays not only respect but awe for its elders. The Maasai Mara is…
Infant elephants have little control over their trunks. They must practice coordinating its movement to source food, eat and drink. These valuable skills are learned from interaction with their environment and through social learning. We watched as a baby elephant…
Privileged to spend eight nights in the Maasai Mara in October 2009, we relished the opportunity to revisit our land of dreams. Ever since our first visit to Kenya in 2005 we’d fallen in love with the continent and had…
The big five are so seductive… each time we go on safari we declare to one another that we are not there to tick off the big five, however it’s difficult not to be sucked into the desire to spot…
Here’s a little something special, which I oiginallly produced for Google Plus’s +African Tuesday #africantuesday and their “Wonderful women of Africa” theme curated by +Morkel Erasmus and +Johan Swanepoel It’s a brief video from our visit to the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Kenya 2009. There we were lucky…
I spend so much time trying to capture the perfect wildlife portrait that I sometimes forget the most interesting shots are often those that represent reality i.e what you see, when you see it. I have started to wonder if photography could or should be less about…