Category: Wildlife photo

  • Outdoor photography – web sites

    Outdoor photography is a great activity. It associates going outside in the wild (or at least in the free nature) and our passion for photography. But it can be also prepared on the web. This is the reason I collected a few good web addresses for web sites taking seriously the outdoor photographer needs and…

  • Wild animals have a web site to show their best

    This is really the feeling you have when you visit the web site of Christine and Michel Denis-Huot where you will find some of their best images or those that were most successful, from their work as wildlife photographers. I heartily recommend the images primées (awards). Michel and Christine spend months out of their home…

  • Photo deer hunting during the rutting season

    Click on the thumbnail to enlarge the image. Maybe you thought this deer was belling in rut; But no! He’s just bored to death during a photo session near the park border and he’s merely yawning. Some of you may have noticed the lack of updates in the recent days. Apart from some personal unforecasted…

  • Ben WILHELMI

    Ben WILHELMI

    Ben Wilhelmi is a photographer I like a lot. He has a nice web site with galleries of powerful safari photos. All his images seem different, but they share an invariable personal requirement for quality.

  • Images of the day – Visit to the park

    Today, I took a few hours to test my new tele-lens Minolta 300mm f/4. Those few images were taken in the Park of the Castle of Grouchy in the middle of the day while I was looking for little birds (I never caught): Finally, here are some very static images from the underbrush.

  • West African black rhinos declared extinct

    West African black rhinos declared extinct

    A scientific study recently suggested that these animals that were present in West Africa no longer exist in the wild and the species went extinct in this part of the world. Actually, the expected last animals failed to be found in Northern Cameroon. Consequently, the West African black rhino sub-species has been tentatively declared extinct.…

  • Buffalo colourful airstrip

    Buffalo colourful airstrip

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  • Eye of the cat

    Eye of the cat

    As all cats, felines from the Masai Mara National Park (Kenya) have fascinating eyes.

  • Masai Mara – Hippopotamus

    Masai Mara – Hippopotamus

    Hippopotamus are large herbivorous from the same family as the horse. they seem quite peaceful but have a lot of available energy (and a considerable mass). Even if it is possible to encounter them out of water during the day, they prefer to avoid sun shine (they risk dying from sun exposure) and only eat…