Category: Digital photography

  • The lizard and the hippo – a one-snapshot photographic tale

    The lizard and the hippo – a one-snapshot photographic tale

      A green lizard too lazy to cross the Mara river (Kenya) is using the back of a friendly hippopotamus

  • Masai Mara – Landscapes

    Masai Mara – Landscapes

    Remember! I advised to bring a trans-standard zoom to take a few postcards during your photo safari (there is more than mere animals in an African wild life reserve). Morning and evening lights gave me the occasion to make a few interesting images in the landscapes I was in. I collected here some of the…

  • Nature images

    For the lovers of nature images (mostly African), I was directed to a new web site. Seemingly interesting, images are not all perfect, but some are quite neat. Colors of WildLife Thanks to Simba.

  • Masai Mara – from behind

    Masai Mara – from behind

    Taking a good photo is not always east. But with animals, it becomes daringly difficult if the model decided not to cooperate. In a 1000 photos taken during the course of the safari in the Masai Mara National Park in March, there were a few interesting failures or good photos (depending on your taste). The…

  • Contextual advertisment for safaris?

    I just noticed (on my own web site) a contextual ad from Google that seemed quite well targeted. Titled “Wildebeest migration” (gnus migration), it promotes a Tanzania safari en Tanzanie in June-July for this great moment of Nature: 15 millions gnus and 3 millions zebras simultaneously leave Tanzania to go back to Kenya. Big show!…

  • Masai Mara – Leopard

    Masai Mara – Leopard

    The most difficult part of this safari, the leopard was tough to find, nearly impossible to photograph (several days without a single observation before driving more than ten kilometers to find one single animal, but a nice animal indeed!) Leopard

  • Masai Mara – Elephants

    Masai Mara – Elephants

    This year (2006), we find a lot of elephants in the Masai Mara National Park. Most of the specialists say that this comes from the drought that led these big mammals to group in relatively protected areas. Female elephant Elephant and impala Elephant and impala (Dumbo is free for real!)

  • Masai Mara – Grey heron

    Masai Mara – Grey heron

    Grey Heron, Mara river

  • Masai Mara – Lions

    Masai Mara – Lions

    Lions are everywhere in the plains of the Masai Mara. You bump into them after every tree. Generally, they are sleeping in the shade (their days are spread between 1% hunting, 1% eating and 98% sleeping after eating or before hunting). My best images follow… Big males The king of the animals, Simba (in Swahili),…