From the category archives:

Monochrome

African Buffalo

May 9, 2010
Thumbnail image for African Buffalo

An old African Buffalo, and old African Buffalo are irritable, grouchy and dangerous. He’s old and has probably been excluded from his herd now and will see his last days to himself.

Read the full article →

Nkuringo II

May 3, 2010
nkuringo silverback mountain gorilla

Nkuringo was an elderly silverback mountain gorilla from Bwindi in Uganda. I took this in March 2008. This is a follow up picture of Nkuringo who featured in a recent post here where I’ve a fuller account of our time with him.

Read the full article →

White Backed Vulture

April 25, 2010
African White backed Vulture

An African White-backed Vulture in atypical vulture pose. It’s a picture which I felt led itself quite well to monochrome. This one is captive, which I took in a rehabilitation centre near Limpopo, South Africa.

Read the full article →

Nkuringo

January 25, 2010
nkuringo silverback mountain gorilla

Nkuringo was an old silverback of the first mountain gorilla group we visited in 2008, the Nkuringo Group at South Bwindi in Uganda. There were sixteen in the group then, but the leadership belonged to another younger silverback called Safari.

Read the full article →

Monochrome

November 26, 2009
young desert elephants playing

I’ve another gallery addition this time of black and white versions of photos taken in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Namibia, between 2005 and 2009.

Read the full article →

Dead Vlei acacias

November 8, 2009
Dead Vlei Acacias, Namibia

In Namibia in November 2008 we really wanted to see Dead Vlei at Sossusvlei on our own and with nobody else there to spoil the barrenness. Pictures of Dead Vlei needed to contain no other people, just the sky, sand and acacias.

Read the full article →

Just hanging on

October 31, 2009
Infant mountain gorilla hanging on to a branch

There were several mountain gorillas infants in Group Thirteen and I took this opportunity to get closer with some detail pictures. This guy was slipping all over the place and occasionally losing his grip. I took this one just before he fell with a thud to the earth.

Read the full article →