Category: Wildlife photo
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Masai Mara – Jackal
The Masai Mara National Park of Kenya does not host only felines. Dogs are also present in the carnivorous fauna of the country. We’ll see some hyenas later on, but here is a jackal encounter. Little fearful dogs, nervous hunters, they are quite difficult to approach. Â Â
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Masai Mara – Yawning all day long
Life in the wild savanah is a weird mix of leisurly quiet life (herbivorous graze in the sun, lions sleep in the shade of a tree, hippos float lazily in a river) and of terrible activity (antelopes are always alert about what is happening around, felines start running as fast as they can in order…
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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!)