A few more..
May 5, 2010
Black and white
April 24, 2010
I am currently working on a portfolio of black and white photographs that will feature in an exhibition later this year. A few images:
Elephant herd
Tree climbing lion
Old buffalo bulls
Lion eye
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Aerial images
March 11, 2010
Despite the bad weather John and I had a wonderful week getting up into the air in his microlight whenever we could. A few shots..
Elephant family
Buffalo mud bath
Flying with Bateleur eagles is always exhilarating – they are extremely fast and almost impossible to photograph so I’m quite pleased with the image below.
Bateleur eagle
Apart from the photography we have been tracking lions using the radio collars fitted by the Luangwa Valley Carnivore Monitoring Program. We found a group of four males and a female feeding on a buffalo in the Nsefu sector. It seems the collared lions in the Lion Camp area have moved inland away from the river to avoid the flooding as there was no sign of them. We have also done a few flights further north looking for poachers – John quite often finds poacher’s camps and meat-drying racks in the rains but thankfully there is no sign of them this year.
Male Lion following a game trail
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Elephant images
February 26, 2010
A couple elephant images that came up in today’s files.. Next week back to the Valley – I can’t wait!
Grumpy bull
Stuck in the mud
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Nature’s Best award
December 22, 2009
This photograph of an elephant calf dozing while supported by its mother’s legs was highly honoured in the recent Nature’s Best Photography competition in the United States. It was also one of the most popular and best selling images at my ‘Living Luangwa’ exhibition. Limited edition prints are still available and you can order them online from my website by clicking here. I have also recently updated my gallery so there are a number of new prints available for purchase. Click here to take a look.
Secure
The image is included in this year’s Nature’s Best portfolio – there are 138 images selected from over 20,000 entries from 56 different countries. The portfolio is published in a collector’s edition of Nature’s Best magazine. Click here if you would like to order a copy.
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Exhibition closes
December 20, 2009
It has been a very busy month for me but my exhibition has now come to an end and things are quietening down just in time for Christmas. The exhibition was a great success – it was titled ‘Living Luangwa’ and featured 50 of my favourite images from my last 4 years work in the Luangwa valley. Here are a few of the most popular photographs although seeing them at web size doesn’t do them justice – printed large, framed and lit well makes all the difference..
Hollywood
Clash of the Titans
Kaingo
Broken Mopane
Kakuli
Milky way
Making waves
Geronimo!
Wet feet
Lashes
Skimming
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Balancing act
September 27, 2009
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