I have just returned from a tour around the beautiful and welcoming country of Uganda; in a 10 day trip, we visited an incredibly diverse and spectacular range of habitats and experienced wonderful wildlife and scenery throughout. I am running a photo-safari to Uganda & [...]
I always really look forward to my Emerald Season safaris. It's a beautiful time of year, there are lots of great subjects around - including breeding birds as well as all the usual sightings we enjoy in the Luangwa - and the cool temperatures give [...]
Mike has travelled with me several times before. Many of you will remember his reports from previous trips, and shared in the sightings that we have enjoyed. This time, we changed the arrangements slightly and he visited in the Emerald Season so that he would [...]
Due to unfortunate illness, I have a last-minute place on a safari to Lion Camp & Anabezi Camp later this year. These camps are sited in two of the best wildlife areas in Zambia. Lion Camp's privileged position on the edge of a grassy dambo [...]
Mike White has travelled with me many times since 2017. It's really a pleasure to spend time with someone who loves this area as much as I do and is willing to return again and again to reconnect with the wildlife. He's very accomplished as [...]
Alongside the thriving tourism industry of the South Luangwa is a community which is the rightful owner of the assets on which this industry depends. Their revenue stream is significant, in the form of employment, payments for goods and services bought in the area and, [...]
I have been using the Canon EOS R5 for almost a year. I've put it through a safari season, with all the associated travel, knocks, bumps and dust which that entails, and I'm happy to say that it's coped very well. It doesn't have the [...]
Social media is full of high-impact, impressive images and videos which are a curated selection of events from the whole experience that is being promoted. This is true of the feed created by individuals as much as it is of companies hoping to sell their [...]
November is a challenging time in the Luangwa. It's hot as hell, we are approaching the end of the season, and both people and animals are counting the days until the arrival of rain brings respite to the land. The sun rises early, long before [...]
Despite being the icon of Africa, savannah elephants are among the most difficult species to photograph well. I think there are four approaches which work effectively: family and group shots; behaviour; close ups and elephant-scapes. There are certainly other techniques which can be used too, [...]
