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...

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...

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...

The lightning is break-dancing across the Lebombo Hills and the rain that’s collected in the canopy above our heads is gushing down in a mean impersonation of Vic Falls. (Having seen the forecast we agreed flight shots weren’t going to...

It was great to find ourselves back on Zimanga private game reserve with new guests at the start of June, so soon after our previous visit and with a full seven nights ahead of us to enjoy the exciting photographic...

It’s always an exciting sight when you come in to land at Kasane airport in Botswana and suddenly, after flying high over mile upon mile of Chobe National Park bushland, you’re met with the snaking curves of that mighty blue...

We’ve been in the hide barely 20 minutes when the white rhino arrives.  He’s a big male, patrolling his territory at the end of the day, confident and assured.  It’s a rare cloudy day, but under the darkening overcast sky...