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45 images Created 13 Apr 2020

Tribute to the Kalahari

The Kalahari Desert is not a true desert. Only the driest southern sections (better know as the Kgalagadi) do resemble what is generally understood as a desert. The Kalahari's dry hostile environment is however, full of contrasts and so quintessentially beautiful that it deserves to be tributed.
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  • snouted cobra in thornbush
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  • Double rainbow at sunset over Kalahari landscape with shadow of photographer
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  • Fiery sky with rainbow streaks at sunset over Kalahari landscape.
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  • Thunder storm with lightning bolts at sunset over Kalahari pan
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  • Leopard tortoise drinking from a rainwater puddle in the Nossob Riverbed
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  • Adult fox teaches young how to hunt for insects
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  • Double rainbow on the frontier of an incoming summer storm over the Nossob River Valley
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  • Double Rainbow over Nossob River Valley.
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  • Umbrellathorn tree at sunrise is the focal point under a powerful cloudscape scene in the CKGR
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  • Herd of giraffe on the Piper Pans in the CKGR, Botswana. A summer rainstorm created the mood that is so typical for the Kalahari in summer. I used an ultra wide-angle lens to capture the vastness of the scene.
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  • I recently commented to one of my photography buddies in reply to his remark that he wants interesting subjects to shoot, that since he is a good photographer he can create art with any animal subject, even a mouse! <br />
To illustrate my point here I remembered I was shooting some very ordinary and common ground squirrels in Khutse earlier this year. All the squirrels did was eat, but what made the scene was the abundance wild flowering Vlei Lilies. These beautiful flowers grow only for a couple of days so my timing, shortly after the first rains of the season, was perfect.
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  • A fiery summer sunset scene in a Kalahari Pan strewn with flowering wild Vlei Lilies.
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  • Remarkably, a dead looking broken small Mopipi tree starts to show new growth even before the rains have commenced this rainy season in the Khutse game reserve.
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  • A lone Cheetah in the magnificent landscape of the Nossob River Valley in golden light.
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  • Colourfuls dusky sky reflected in the rain puddles left on the track through the Nossob River Valley in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
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  • Two sprinbok lambs enjoying a run around in the Nossob River Valley.
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  • Two young bull Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) practise their fighting skills in the Nossob River Valley.
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  • Gemsbok walking amongst  purple cat's tail flowers in the Nossob River Valley in the KTP
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  • Three adolescent cheetahs waking up amongst the tall back-lit grasses in a Kgalagadi Fossil River bed.
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  • Glorious pastel coloured sunset over the flooded Tale Pan in northern Botswana
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  • 'Clash of the Titans'<br />
Dramatic stormy sky at sunset over the Kalahari plains of the Khutse Game Reserve at the end of the rainy season.
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  • A male territorial Lion crosses the pictoresque Mpayathutlwa Pan in the Mabuasehube Game Reserve.
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  • Golden Kalahari grases wave in the wind on the shores of a pan in the Mabuasehube Game Reserve.
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  • Two male Gemsbok bulls fight out a territorial dispute in the Nossob River Valley.
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  • A giant social weaver nest in a Camelthorn acacia tree in the Nossob River Valley in the KTP.
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  • A sprinbok herd bolts at the sound of a whistleblower spotting a cheetah.
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  • Wild stormy sky at sunset over a kalahari pan.
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  • 'The Conjurance'<br />
Over the years Khutse has been incredibly productive for me when it comes to dramatic skies; the Kalahari is true big sky country! <br />
Here is my favorite of another epic scene that unfolded during a sunset on my last trip.
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  • A lone ostrich chick on a track in the kalahari.
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  • Spotted hyena pup standing over a Vlei Lily.
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  • A partial rainbow shows up in a stormy sky above the rolling dune landscape in the Kgalagadi.
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  • A dramatic local thundershower complete with double partial rainbow comes rolling in over the Nossob River Valley in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
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  • A single acacia tree is silhouetted against an approaching pastel coloured cloud massif
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  • 'The King of Dusk'<br />
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As dusk sets in, a magnificent Kalahari black-maned lion wakes up under a fiery summer evening sky. This is the time for him to start his 'day'. <br />
I creatively used flash here to make the lion the main visual focal point against this colourful sky.
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  • Seeing an electric Kalahari lightning storm unfold in the distance over the open Kalahari landscape, mostly in the late afternoons, is a sight to behold. Being in the middle of one on the other hand can be downright terrifying! At the commencement of the rainy season the first local thunderstorms start to occur, which can set the dry bush ablaze.
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  • Partial double rainbow over Kgalagadi landscape in the Mabuasehube Game Reserve
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  • An old and tired brown hyena crosses a pan in the Mabuasehube Game Reserve.
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  • A group of meerkats on the look out.
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  • Portrait of a large Kudu Bull with steamy breath on a cold Winter morning in the Kalahari.
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  • Herd of springbok in golden kalahari landscape.
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  • A leopard scans the surroundings from a Shepherd's tree.
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  • Steenbok in golden grasses in Mabuasehube Game Reserve.
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  • A Gemsbok herd on the move towards the setting sun, covered in a cloud of dust.
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  • A Leopard Tortoise walks in an inundated Kgalagadi pan.
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  • Dramatic sunrise sky reflected in an inundated Kgalagadi Pan with a Wildbeest skull in the foreground
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