The Week in Pictures #309
With just over six weeks to go until we say goodbye to 2017, the question on everyone’s minds here has been, “when are we going to get rain again?” It’s …
With just over six weeks to go until we say goodbye to 2017, the question on everyone’s minds here has been, “when are we going to get rain again?” It’s …
Arriving at Londolozi a little under three years ago, it was a chance for me to explore a part of my country I had yet to experience in my life. …
One of my more memorable afternoon game drives of the last few weeks involved hardly any driving and instead a lot of lying down on my stomach. I was with …
With the number 300 right around the corner for the iconic Week in Pictures post, we felt something had to be done to commemorate it properly. We wanted it to …
The advantage of digital photography over traditional film photography is the ability to take a series of images in rapid succession, without wasting any film, in the hope of capturing …
As a guide we are programmed to interpret what is happening around us; be it a male impala filled with testosterone chasing females around or a male lion sleeping in …
We ran a post recently that examined the female leopard dynamics in the northern reaches of Londolozi, and talked about the relatively unknown Ingrid Dam female. When we first started seeing …
The bush is a slightly quieter place at the moment, with many of the migratory bird species having departed for northern climes. The speed and distance of the many migrations …
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” One of the fantastic things about photography is that it allows us to return to and ponder the …
At the conclusion of another memorable week at Londolozi, I look back and consider myself extremely fortunate to have witnessed such incredible sightings and to be exposed to such a …
There’s a certain tree scattered across Londolozi’s landscape whose many names – the buffalo thorn, blink-blaar-wag-‘n-bietjie (Afrikaans for “shiny-leaf wait-a-bit”), umLahlabantu (Zulu for “that which buried the chief”), and mbafa …
This morning I think we had our first actual traffic jam on Londolozi. With the river flowing quite strongly, and the Pink Pouch having changed hands a couple of times …
This week has been characterized by the impending threat of Cyclone Dineo that made landfall on the eastern part of Mozambique on Wednesday and continued its path towards the Kruger …
I’m very aware of the seemingly contradictory nature of this statement, but sometimes I regret the day I ever picked up a camera. Photography and film are two incredible mediums through …
Wildebeest calves strike me as particularly stupid little creatures. They’re hilarious to watch as they gambol around the clearings with their funny “Meep” sounds, and their expressionless faces with those …