Green Bee-eaters - Sri Lanka Working on the website recently it struck me that I haven’t blogged for some considerable time. In fact it was July last year, but the subject was our trip to Sri Lanka undertaken in mid-February. Time to do a 2020 Roundup then. Sri Lanka was actually our last foreign photography trip and the catalogue of cancellations is...
Elephant Calf Suckling Mum On our third full day at the Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society we got into the Wasgamuwa National Park when it opened in the morning. This was the norm for the rest of the trip as we spent full days in the park. Immediately on entering the gate we found a White-throated Kingfisher perched on the branch of...
A pair of male Elephants having a 'discussion' A little over a year ago we were given the chance to join a small group of photographers on a conservation/photography trip to Sri Lanka. The conservation aspect was involving Elephants and was planned for morning activity, with afternoons allowing general wildlife photography. The result was on a wet Saturday evening in mid-February,...
Kiok & Koshoke, Topi Plains Pride Males After taking an afternoon rest the previous day, we were feeling completely refreshed on the morning of our last full day in the Mara 2019. We were back on top of our game by 6:20am photographing the Enkuyanai pride once more. I was happily adding to my portfolio of shots featuring the wonderful Olbarnoti...
Topi Plains Juveniles at First Light Entering the next phase of the Mara portion of the trip, we were out with the Topi Plains pride of Lions before 6:30am. The light was fantastic and in a little over an hour had shot over 400 images, mainly of the cubs at play. As temperature rose and they settled down, we left them...
Siligi and five of her cubs On our third full day in the Maasai Mara, we had a plan that involved an even earlier start than usual. It involved a long journey to reach the area where we were hoping to catch up with a Cheetah (Siligi) and her seven cubs.* It was roughly the same area as we had seen...
Buffalo and his Oxpecker After the trials and tribulations of getting to the airstrip in Amboseli, and the slight delay in the arrival of our plane, it was relief to get back to Nairobi. We were in plenty of time to catch our connecting flight for moving to the Mara and our next phase of the trip. Rather than game driving to...
African Spoonbill preening Our visit to Amboseli was scheduled to take place in advance of the hosted safari in the Mara. It was a fact-finding visit first of all, but two of our Mara guests decided to come along too. We were due to spend three nights at Zebra Plains Amboseli because we were advised that was the optimum duration. The flight...
Female Cheetah - Samburu On our first visit to Kenya in November 2017, we could not have predicted how captivated we would become. We already had multiple safari trips to South Africa, Zambia and Botswana under our belts, so we thought we had a good idea of what to expect. But here we are, a little over two years later, eagerly...
Green Iguana - Iguana Bridge, Costa Rica For some time we have been of the opinion that our website needed a refresh. The design was out-dated and we didn’t feel the images were displayed to their best advantage. It was easy enough to maintain and quite economical to run, but it had to go. In short, some website works were required. In...