There are two species of Oxpeckers; Luangwa is home to both the Red-billed and the Yellow-billed varieties. In Luangwa, as their name suggests, they can be found 'pecking' at bovine mammals such as buffalo. But they are also regularly found on giraffe, eland, zebra, warthog, [...]
We are fortunate to have Conservation South Luangwa - a Zambian NGO - working to protect the future of the Luangwa ecosystem. Their efforts are crucial in sustaining wildlife resources, preventing poaching, mitigating human-wildlife conflict and supporting the tourism activities which rely on the National [...]
As the dry season takes hold, and the hippos munch through all the vegetation in the lagoons, the bloom of weed below the surface gives the water a temporary green tinge. A large bull hippo eyes me up from the murky waters of a muddy [...]
We've all experienced it: you look through your camera, compose a beautiful scene, snap the shutter....and are disappointed with the result that appears on the back of the camera! Of course, this can happen for a number of reasons, but I am going to look [...]
For example......last week, I was invited to photograph the bush wedding of a British couple who have certainly found their own Sacred Coombe* in the Luangwa. It is always a pleasure to be part of a wedding and help celebrate such a happy day - [...]
If you don't bump into monkeys around your camp, hippos may be the first wildlife you encounter on arrival in Luangwa. From your safari camp, you will likely have wide views of the river; and in Luangwa, wherever there is water, there will be hippos! [...]
The idea of a panorama is to take multiple overlapping images of a scene and then stitch the edges together using software to generate one large photo of the whole scene. In the past, this used to be a very tricky technique which involved clever [...]
As the sun breaks the dry-season horizon, its warm pink glow floods the grey dawn. Diurnal birds, emerging from night-time refuges, call to stake their territorial claim and advise would-be competitors that they’ve survived the night. Having scoured the dry land for forage, hippos return [...]
It's often worth re-visiting old images. Not only is it a wonderful trip down memory lane, it often unearths some gems that you might have overlooked in the haste of processing through hundreds of images from a trip. I was recently scouring my libraries for [...]
Carmine bee-eaters are found right across Central, Eastern and Southern Africa. The Northern species extends from Senegal to Somalia and down through Kenya; the Southern species - which visit us in the Luangwa - are found from southern DRC across to western Tanzania and down [...]
