We were chuffed to get the news that another of our images has been chosen to appear in the prestigious Remembering Wildlife series of books this year. The series has to date raised more than $1 million for wildlife conservation...
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...
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...
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...
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....
It seems there’s an obsession with action in wildlife photography these days – understandable perhaps given the dynamism of a well-executed example, coupled with the technical ability of today’s top-end digital cameras to seriously increase the overall hit rate. But...
It’s the quiver tree’s distinctive shape that makes it so photogenic. It’s one of the most striking natural symbols of Namibia, a nation with no shortage of such icons. These strange, spiky plants aren’t trees at all, but a type...
The wind takes a deep sigh and enters the house through the broken windows. It deposits a dusting of sand in the parlour then wafts out the open front door like a phantom… This is how the Namib desert is...