Category: Wildlife photo
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Masai Mara – landscapes 2
Even more landscape images from the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya (Spring 2006). Savanah after the rain
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Wild trails
A photography friend’s web site: Sentiers sauvages (Wild trails) where you will find a lot of nice animal pictures. Plenty of birds, but also some pictures taken in Africa including some that may remind you of my own safari to Kenya (this is no random encounter, of course).
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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
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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…
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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.
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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
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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!)
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Masai Mara – Grey heron
Grey Heron, Mara river
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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),…