Setting up your camera for more efficient focusing In our latest concise guide we look at how separating focus and shutter release functions could help improve your safari photography. If you’re not already using back button focus, then separating the...

Capturing wildlife in motion with panning shots In our latest concise guide to improving your safari photography we look at creating dynamic action shots with panning techniques. Lowering your ISO and closing down the camera aperture might seem strange advice...

Protecting your images when on safari In the latest of our concise guides to improving your safari photography we look at how to organise a back-up workflow to safeguard your shots. Working out what camera kit to take on safari...

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...

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...

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...

The new Pangolin Chobe Hotel, which opened last year just in time to receive guests on our September Uniquely Chobe safari, has been named ‘Best New Hotel in Africa’ in the prestigious World Travel Awards. With its sweeping roof, shaped...

‘Believe me my young friend,’ says Rat to Mole in Kenneth Graham’s‘’Wind in the Willows’’, ‘there is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats’… …and when the boat is a Pangolin photo boat...

The best things come in threes – well that’s what they say. Except maybe leopards. Leopards are singletons, shy, solo, stand-offish, masters of mystery and stealth. You don’t spot one readily, pardon the pun, and getting the chance to photograph...