From the category archives:

Wildlife

Amboseli Crossing

April 21, 2010
elephant calf amboseli

This is a revise of a picture from a previous post, Elephant Calf Crossing of October last year. Since then I’ve refined it with an improved appearance and made it available as a Giclée fine art print here.

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Pride of Place

April 20, 2010
a lion on a serengeti kopje

This is a revise of a picture from a previous post, Lion on Serengeti Kopje of October last year. Then, the image was a fairly rough monochrome conversion, and since then I’ve refined it to a more finished standard and is also available as a Giclée fine art print here.

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A Crocodile and Wildebeest Battle

April 10, 2010
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One wildebeest was left behind out of five hundred or so after a crossing on the Mara River in Kenya. The poor guy finally succumbed after a near two hour battle with several Nile crocodiles, during which he almost made the safety of the riverbank twice. Unfortunately it’s not always agreeable and pleasing, nature being nature means that many will suffer too, and every year hundreds of antelope and zebra never make the other side.

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Fine Art Prints

April 7, 2010
elephant calf

Late last year I began work on some of my more contemporary pictures with a view to publishing them as a range of fine art prints, and as of today, the first two are now available for sale here.

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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.

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Kigoma in the Rain

January 16, 2010
Silverback Mountain Gorilla in the Rain

“We’ve just one minute remaining” said our guide when I took this photo, the last and one of my favourites of a one hour session. Then, just as I’d taken the picture and become distracted while securing a footing, he came quickly forward, surprising us and nearly knocking me sideways.

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Red robin in the snow

January 10, 2010
red robin in the snow

Not wanting to miss Richmond Park with the recent snow cover, I arrived in time for the sunrise and made my way to the ponds near the centre to see if I can catch something bigger than this robin, ideally with antlers.

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Lioness and carcass

January 2, 2010
lioness and wildebeest carcass

One morning on the Masai Mara reserve, we encountered a lioness and her three cubs hauling a wildebeest carcass to cover. The kill was fresh and it was out in the open plain and the nearest cover of scrub was a mile distant.

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