Articles - Wildlife

During our African adventures in the Timbavati region of greater Kruger National Park in October of 2012, I shot a large number of stills images of the many species of amazing wildlife we encountered there.  In addition to my images, I also shot some video footage.  I have been wanting to produce a short video [ continue reading ]

After an intense fourth day in Africa, during which we saw all five members of the 'Big Five' (which, for those who do not know, is a hunting term, not a relative descriptor of animal size) and a decent sleep, we rose before 5am for our final day in Motswari.  We knew that we had [ continue reading ]

By day four of our time in Africa, and day three of our safari in the Motswari Private Game Reserve in greater Kruger Park, the motions of waking before 5am, driving in the bushveld for three hours, coming back for breakfast, a rest, lunch and then going out for another game drive from 3:30pm until [ continue reading ]

Our third day in Africa was the second day of our photographic safari in the Motswari Private Game Reserve in greater Kruger Park.  It started with an early rise, some time before 5am.  We were heading out on our first morning game drive, during which we would encounter lots of wildlife, and another special surprise [ continue reading ]

As I related in previous articles, during our recent trip to South Africa, we encountered Makepisi, a male leopard, on our first game drive in the Motswari Private Game Reserve.  In addition to capturing stills images of Makepisi, I also shot video vootage of him resting, stretching, grooming and yawning, as he sat on the [ continue reading ]

We have been back from Africa for nearly a week now, and it has been several days since I wrote about our first day in Africa, so as I sit here on my time off work, it is a good time to start relating the details of our big adventure in the African wilderness.  4 [ continue reading ]