A Rewilding Journey
Part 1 – Ruaha National Park, Southern Tanzania Taking an exceptional fine art wildlife image is the end product to my work, but most often there is a journey involved to get to this point. I feel that if I do not take this journey and simply rock up as a tourist photographer, my resultant […]
A Rewilding Journey
Part 2 – Usangu Awakens Our good friend, Brandon Kemp, who had as much experience as anyone we know across all the great wildlife areas of Southern and East Africa, had for the past few years been telling us we had to visit a place called Usangu Wetlands. He spoke of incredible habitat, no tourists, […]
Jabali Ridge
Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, Sept 2023 Southern Tanzania Part 1 We have been fortunate to visit Serengeti National Park in Tanzania numerous times. East Africa is the birthplace of the quintessential African safari, and not only have we always been drawn to the incredible wildlife and the unparalleled photographic opportunities, but the wonderfully warm and […]
The Usangu Wetlands
Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, Sept 2023 Southern Tanzania, Part 2 Our good friend, Brandon Kemp, former country manager for Asilia Tanzania, had for a number of previous years been telling us about the incredible Asilia Africa project he was heading up. ‘Presence, not profit,’ was how he coined it. It was his strong believe and […]
Advance
It’s hard to describe what it’s like to be lying in front of an elephant of this size … humbling, intimidating, exhilarating all come to mind. It is these emotions I sought to capture in the photograph itself, and I feel that when this work is shown at scale it achieves these aims. This huge […]
Destiny
The black-manned lion is an undisputed African Icon. It is the most spectacular looking of all lions, but due to indiscriminate trophy hunting and poaching, the species gene pool is both small and isolated. There are now but a few locations, primarily in Southern Africa’s arid reaches, that offer a small chance to encounter one […]