Photographing Africa Safaris

12/08/2021

Join us in celebrating these gentle, majestic giants. Happy World Elephant Day. 🐘🐘🐘

05/08/2021

Majestic sable bull, Hwange National Park

31/07/2021

We salute Rangers world wide. Heartfelt thanks for protecting our natural heritage. Your selfless courage is invaluable.

21/07/2021

So so special!

18/07/2021

The stare.
On safari in Tanzania, we came across these lions. When we first saw them they were way in the distance, but even from that far away we got the feeling that they saw us long before we did.
From the moment we made our approach to them we could feel the, stare they gave us. Paying much attention to their ogle, we didn’t push any boundaries and approached them with extreme sensitivity. At a snails pace we were able to get to a point that we felt they were still comfortable with us and we could also observe their behavior easily. After watching them for about 35 minutes we heard one of the females give off an unmistakable call. On hearing the call we all got very excited, in anticipation of what was to follow. Out of the taller grass, bumbling along came 3 young Cubs. It’s amazing the thrill young animals bring when on safari and in particular predator Babies!
We admired the youngsters for a long time as they gave us a lot more opportunity for interesting photos, opposed to the apparently, very tired adults. At some point, a small antilope of sorts that must have gotten tired of hiding from the lions decided, this was probably a great time for an escape and took off through the long grass at some speed, just behind our vehicle.
Anyone that has spent time watching lions in the wild, knows how much these cats can sleep, however the thing that is amazing is their ability to get up from a deep sleep at the slightest of unfamiliar sounds. This is exactly what happened when that nervous antilope took off. Instinctively the cats looked in the same direction simultaneously, two of the Cubs ran to the safety of the taller cover then popped their heads out to see what was going on. This was the shot of that moment I was able to capture.

21/06/2021

Something to brighten a grey winter morning .....

Without a shadow of doubt, the most photographed bird on safari is the lilac breasted roller. It’s part of a very colorful family, but so often the rest of the members are not made as much of a fuss of by the average Safari goers, simply because these other species are not that easily seen due to a number of reasons. The thing that is their give away in the bush is their flight, often in pursuit of an insect or chasing away other birds from their territory, including much larger raptors that they view as a threat.

Lilac breasted roller.

The bird in the photograph below is a racket – tailed roller this particular species is a resident of forrest that do well in sandy soils like teak and also in some clay soils where mopane trees are, the dominant forrest type.

The purple Roller is the least common of all the rollers found in Southern Africa. They do move during the winter months, which may add to their rarity. The picture of the Purple Roller was taken in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. It was a great capture, just as the bird was about to take off, it also works great with the blue background of the sky with sparse clouds. Below are the photo details.

Purple Roller
Canon EOS 30D
300mm lens
F4
1/2000
ISO 160

Another species of roller we get in Southern Africa is a migratory species that usually arrives around October and stays with us until about March. They have a rapid departure often within a few hours, causing a spectacular migration of hundreds of thousands of birds along the coast from Tanzania to Somalia on route to their breeding destination in Europe. These birds fly as far as Poland and Siberia. It is because of their breeding range that they get their name, European Roller.

19/06/2021

Conservation Matters ... well done to this hard working team.

18/06/2021

Week end Vibes. Birds of Zimbabwe

11/06/2021

Happy Friday!!!

07/06/2021

Beautiful Botswana.... one of our many travel destinations globally.

Discover the Okavango River and its surroundings on one of our Boat Cruises or Safaris.

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07/06/2021

The 5th of June is World Environment Day, a UN-sanctioned day for promoting awareness and action around the protection of the environment. This year’s theme ‘Ecosystem Restoration’ and the resetting of our relationship with the natural world, also marks the formal launch of the UN Decade of Ec...

04/06/2021

Happy Friday!