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The year 2015 is drawing to a close, and it is hard to believe that it has been over six months since our epic trip to the Maasai Mara region of Kenya.  While I shot many images during that trip, I also captured a very decent amount of video footage; but it has taken me six months to [ continue reading ]

I recently learned some tragic and disturbing news, and further reading today has confirmed that it is true.  Ximpoko, a very large male lion who inhabited the Timbavati region of Greater Kruger National Park in South Africa, was killed by trophy hunters in July of 2013.  Ximpoko was one of the first male lions we ever [ continue reading ]

For the past few months I have chronicled our adventures in the Maasai Mara region of Kenya on a day-by-day basis, detailing in words and pictures the incredible experiences we had.  For those who have not been to the Mara, it can be difficult to picture the geography and understand how vast it is, and [ continue reading ]

Our final day in the Mara had arrived, and we had one morning game drive before we would need to depart Elephant Pepper Camp and the fantastic people, animals, places and experiences that had made up the previous week.  The day was quite subdued, and there was that ever-persistent feeling we had experienced before on our final [ continue reading ]

By the sixth day in the Mara North Conservancy in Kenya's south-west, our incredible safari was rapidly drawing to a conclusion; but despite the ticking clock, a lot can happen in two days, and day six would be an amazing day, as we would later discover.  In addition to the routine morning and afternoon game drives [ continue reading ]

Our plan for day five in the Kenyan wilderness was to depart the Mara North Conservancy and head south into the public Maasai Mara National Reserve.  We were in search of cheetahs, the only big cats we had not yet seen.  Rather than heading out for two drives (morning and afternoon) near camp, we made a single [ continue reading ]