Category: Wildlife photo
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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…
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Helmeted Guineafowl
Splendid representant of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, a brightly colored bird with a bare head, can be found all around the Masai Mara National Park. Unfortunately, it is always running out of the path of the photographer. Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris, Pintade de Numidie). Kenya, September 2008.
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One photo, three images
Here is an interesting case (I think) of how I work on the photos I shot. Usually, I think of it as development of the digital image. Like for its argentic/analog counter-part, I have to work a little on the image to make it printable, but I also have to prepare a correct framing of…
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Baby elephant
Random encounter, a baby elephant, probably only two- or three-week old. This is merely the beginning of the publication of photos I shot in the Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya) during a photo safari leaded by Alain Pons, French wildlife photographer. You can expect a long string of images since I found quite a number…