Supremely photogenic, slinky, regal cheetah can nevertheless be the trickiest of the big cats to photograph well. Built lean and long for explosive speed it requires reflexes and shutter speeds as lightning fast as their own to hold focus and...

Shorts. T-shirt. Wash. Teeth. One Woolworth’s oat cookie. Two bites. One cup of tea – three big gulps. Torch. Keys. Don’t forget the small cool-bag. ‘Come on!’ Outside. No clouds. Cool. Although it’s already 24 degrees. Still it’s cool there’s...

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...

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....