New year’s resolution numero whatever: post images more regularly on our blog in 2020. Not really that difficult to achieve given our woeful posting record in 2019. Hey-ho. But to show we mean business at the start of another photographing...

We spend around five months of each year in Southern Africa, mostly in game reserves, photographing wildlife. We meet lots of local people, but most of them are involved in wildlife conservation or tourism. So when we were offered the...

One species has popped up with surprising regularity on most, if not all, our recent visits to South Africa. It’s probably not one that would immediately fly into your mind. The spotted eagle owl. Saucer-eyed, barrel-bodied, cryptically-coloured with a finely-barred...

The jackal is resting in the shade of our vehicle. We can’t see him unless we lean out of the windows. When we do, we see he’s still lying prone, resting his head on his paws with his muzzle facing...

Suricates enjoying a game of boules. The notion might just about be credible on TV back home as part of that long-running ad campaign for a UK price comparison website featuring a clan of movie-loving meerkats. Two-for-one tickets for a...

It’s not unusual when you’re travelling through another country to marvel, and take a bit of a nosey, at some of the unusual and different homes you pass along the way. There are some fine examples in the arid Northern...

A distant silhouette on the far ridge. The distinctive outline of a cat, walking. Heading north. It’s not yet light. Instinctively we both feel it could be a leopard. We’re cautious in calling it though. It’s ‘far, far’, very small...

Tattooed with bruises from off-roading. Eyes sore from peering into the bush (and through our camera viewfinders). Cold in the mornings, hot in the afternoons. Sun drilling down on just one side of our faces. Grit crunching between our teeth....