A Day for Leopards
There are certain days in ones guiding career that you will never forget. The stars align, magic happens and you know beyond all doubt that you will never have a …
There are certain days in ones guiding career that you will never forget. The stars align, magic happens and you know beyond all doubt that you will never have a …
Last week’s beautiful Week in Pictures by Simon Smit featured a number of photographs of lions on the sands of the Manyelethi Riverbed. Myself and Simon were driving a photographic …
It was a week for rhinos. With the little female calf still hanging around with her mother near camp, and the old territorial bull with the cut ear in constant …
Coalition. Interaction. Confrontation. Powerful words. Exciting words. All words used recently on the radio referring to the Selati and Majingilane coalitions. The Majingilane continue to make themselves scarce. Not seen …
Lions. This week was about Lions. At least for me. The Majingilane were back, coming in from the west to reunite with first the Sparta pride and then the Tsalala …
Over the past 18 months there has been much speculation around the status of the hyena population at Londolozi. Where had they all gone and what were the influencing factors that …
This is turning out to be a very interesting year for Londolozi’s lion population. It was always going to be so with an extra pride thrown into the mix, and …
The transition to winter is usually a gradual one. Summer arrives with a bang, with the first rains causing a green flush literally within days. The dry season is usually …
The early morning chill has arrived and the animals are staying active for longer which has produced some amazing sightings in the last week. There has been some interesting lion …
There are two ways in which this question could be answered. One is very simple and short and one is a slightly more detailed analysis of their behaviour, social interaction …
As the air continues to chill and my longing for winter intensifies we see another week pass by at Londolozi. Another week closer to the dry, tawny landscape that is …
It wasn’t too long ago that we were worried about the Sparta Pride. One of the three adult females was nursing an injured ankle and the sub-adults were not contributing …
Photography, as has been mentioned before on the blog, is a function of light. There is only a certain amount available in a scene (assuming no artificial light is being …
Believe it or not, the highlight of the week for me was actually capturing a photo of a banded mongoose. These little critters almost never stay still long enough for …
For those new to photography, the combination of a letter and numbers like f2.8, f11 or f22 can conjure up horrible flashbacks of struggling through algebra class. It doesn’t help …