Images, thoughts, and crib notes from near and far.
Posted in Kenya, Photography information, Safari, Tools and Techniques, Travel on Mar 16th, 2011
With multiple flights and time zone changes, we finally arrived at the Mara Plains Camp. Within 15 minutes of leaving the Mara Intrepid Air Strip, we were sitting on a male and female cheetah that were seriously into each other . Although we stayed with them for several hours, we did not get to observe [...]
National Geographic is airing a new seven part series on great migrations around the globe and examining the driving principles that create migrations. No migration is more iconic than the movements of over 1 million wildebeest along with a couple hundred thousand zebra and gazelles throughout the Serengeti ecosystem including Serengeti National Parka and surrounding [...]
Posted in Africa, How to, Kenya, Safari, Travel on Oct 9th, 2010
I am often amazed at just how stunning clouds can look in black and white. When there is a lack of dynamic color, black and white just seems to come center stage. The image below started out as a normal RAW color capture via my Nikon D3s. After basic color processing, I used Nik Software’s [...]
Posted in Africa, Kenya, Photo of the Week, Safari, Travel on Sep 25th, 2010
You bet and it is one of my favorite landscape techniques. In this particular photograph, we had just returned to Mara Plains Camp after spending the entire day on the Masai Mara Plains. As we approached the camp, I noticed that big ole African sun about the break the cloud bank. I yelled at everyone [...]
Tortillis means dust in Maasai, and during our visit we certainly had no shortage of dust. It was at Tortillis that I saw and photographed my first mirage. Mirages are tricks of the atmosphere, optical illusions caused when a layer of air next to the ground becomes superheated from heat stored in the soil or [...]
Three exciting photo safaris have recently been announced. Could one of these trips have your name on it? Dates for the Galapagos safari are 3-13 June 2011. This is your chance to visit and photograph the islands that have stood still in time since their first discovery by Darwin. Limited space is available on this [...]
Our last night in Amboseli National Park and outside in the Conservation Area found us with several wonderful opportunities as giraffes traveled from the distant forests near Tanzania to the park swamps for water. As daylight started to fall, I saw the opportunity to do some panning shots after the giraffes were spooked off of [...]
I mentioned in the previous posting, the 2 hour negotiation event that netted us three Maasi for a two hour photo shoot starting at dawn the following day. Here are some behind the scenes shots of the Great Negotiator, getting his butt handed to him by the Maasi from a nearby village. At the end [...]
For the past four days, we have been deep in the Masai Mara at Mara Plains Camp. With intermittent internet connections, blog updates have not been possible until today. It is very late so I will post only this very short post. Over the past four days we photographed two large river crossings (Wildebeest), and [...]
After a brutal flight from Dubai to Nairobi aboard Emirates (the big guy does not do small seats very well), the three die-hard photographers will soon board our private charter flight taking us deep into the Masai Mara. Rather than spending hours on the road, I selected a private charter option to maximize our shooting [...]