Photographing wildlife at water Continuing our quick-fire guides to wildlife photography on safari we show you how to get great reflection pictures. Water and wildlife – it’s a winning combination.  A life-force and magnet for subjects, water reliably provides both...

Photographing large birds of prey in flight Continuing our new series of concise guides to better safari photography we look at capturing dynamic flight shots of large raptors. Africa’s abundance and variety of birds of prey never ceases to amaze...

Achieving instant impact with wildlife silhouettes In the first of a new series of bite-size guides to improving your safari photography we look at how to capture animal silhouettes. If you’re looking for instant impact with your wildlife images, then...

A leopard in a Mashatu tree. These majestic trees, aka Nyalaberry trees, are prolific in Botswana’s Northern Tuli reserve, and give their name to Mashatu game reserve, part of Northern Tuli. The trees have become known as Mashatu trees because...

Tiger Tiger, burning bright,  In the forests of the night;  What immortal hand or eye,  Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Willliam Blake, Songs of Experience 1794 When you sit in the Zimanga night hides in the early hours of the...

Chobe lapa! Scrolling through the long reel of memories and subjects still running through our heads following our latest nine night visit to the Chobe, it’s proving difficult to find the best place to press pause and begin our latest...

The benefit of being able to set up calmly and ease yourself gently into your photography session – that’s what you imagine you’d be able to do on a night hide session on Zimanga private game reserve in South Africa,...

Part of the magic of safari photography is Africa’s ability to throw surprises at you and confound your expectations.  So perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised by the results of our first foray into African camera trapping. But we were....

It’s just gone dark. We are watching a lion shake off the lazy slumbers of a hot afternoon while adjusting our camera settings in the hope of some shots of him looking predatory under the spotlight. Dinner will have to...

A baby hippo, round as a ripe aubergine, is relaxing close to his mother on the banks of one of Africa’s mighty rivers. We drift in slowly so as not to disturb them. Peeping over the lush grasses the youngster...