Category: Photo safari
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Burchell’s zebras
The “Great migration” in Kenya and Tanzania is the move of gnus (wildebeests) but also of zebras. Usually, I have a tough time to find inspiration when shooting these animals. But in last September, I believe that I found how to draw a few good images of these zebras. Burchell’s zebra (Equus burchellii, zèbre de…
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Lions in the Kenya morning
A few images of lion females on YLoveBigCats.com (Kenya 2008).
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Some more vultures
Before some big cats, here are some vultures again:
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Sun rise
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Giraffes from Kenya
Giraffes, here is a weird animal. On of the real bizarre things in nature. You can often see young males fighting: It seems that they are fighting in a very slow motion. Despite that, it is a very aggressive behaviour and the males use that to decide hierarchies and access rights to the females. .…
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Southern Eland
The Southern Eland is the largest savanah antelope (bulls may weigh 700-800kg). Very shy, it runs away at first sight of a human being or a car. Difficult snapshot, guaranteed. Southern Eland (Taurotragus oryx, Elan du Cap, antílope eland común). Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.
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Vultures
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Lion portraits
I published a few shots of lions. Portraits taken in the Masai Mara park (Kenya). My prefered is the following one: If you click on the thumbnail image, you will enlarge it. And you may notice that the photographer (and its car) are appearing in the eye of the lion. 😉 But there are several…
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Don’t confuse buffalos with landing strips!
You should think that most cattle birds never heard about this injunction. They use African Buffalos as landing strips and these big cows as as source of food while they remove the parasites from their skin. African Buffalos (nearly) without birds Buffalos and birds Here, we see a fast airplane in final approach, or is…