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  • A man with a torch light is stumbling around in the dark under a ghostly baobab tree and a luminous Milky Way.
    VGR_20190601_3547.jpg
  • A monk reads his holy book inside the dark Maryam Korkor rock hewn chruch in Tigray, Ethiopia
    VGR_20171119_1612.jpg
  • Springbok grazing in the Deception Valley under a dark sky
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  • Fresh green new leaves on an umbrella thorn acacia contrast nicely with the dark blue stormy sky and the yellow kalahari grasses.
    VGR_20171001_7178.jpg
  • Fresh green new leaves on an umbrella thorn acacia contrast nicely with the dark blue stormy sky and the yellow kalahari grasses.
    VGR_20171001_7178.tif
  • Kalahari landscape with dark sky bathing in golden light
    VGR_20090106_4690.jpg
  • Brwon hyena stepping out of the shadow into the morning light.
    VGR_20130131_5722aB&Wn.jpg
  • Brwon hyena stepping out of the shadow into the morning light.
    VGR_20130131_5722aB&W.jpg
  • Brwon hyena stepping out of the shadow into the morning light.
    VGR_20130131_5722a.jpg
  • Botswana has some wonderful 'surprises' for those who dare to venture a bit off the beaten tracks; the Gcwihaba Caves are one of these. This almost abstract image of torch light beaming through openings casting shapes of light on the cave wall , was my favorite of a recent adventure to these fascinating caves.
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  • Black storm rolling in over kalahari pan
    VGR_20090110_4781b.jpg
  • An Oryx emerges from the dust cloud lit by the last rays of sunlight reaching the Noddob valley floor.
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  • Perched african scops-owl at night.
    VGR_20090103_1215.jpg
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  • Backlit Baobab uner the luminous Milky Way in the Makgadikgadi Pans, Botswana
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  • Double rainbow at sunset over Kalahari landscape.
    VGR_20090106_1296.jpg
  • Sossusvlei sand dune abstract
    VGR_20100527_0311.jpg
  • 'River of Gold'<br />
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A long exposure scene from inside the amazing SOF Omar Cave, Ethiopia.
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  • View over a cloud-covered Cape Town City as seen from the access road up to the Table Mountain Cableway.
    VGR_20141114_4066.jpg
  • View over Cape Town City from the foot of the Table Mountain
    VGR_20141114_4118.jpg
  • Night scene in the Quiver Tree Forest.
    VGR_20140526_6045.jpg
  • Vlei lilies (Nerina laticoma) in a Kalahari Pan with a dramatic stormy sky.
    VGR_20150103_5304.jpg
  • Two Bull Elephants at a Nxai Pan water hole under a gorgeous and dramatic sky.
    VGR_20181227_9389-HDR_2B&W.jpg
  • The mysterious face of the Namib Desert.
    VGR_20170807_0481.jpg
  • Lightning storm at dusk over the Kalahari Plains
    VGR_20170413_4255.tif
  • White-breasted Cormorant taking flight on the Kafue River.<br />
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'Cormorant take-off'<br />
<br />
Yes, it is just a common White-breasted Cormorant! And yes technically the image is under-exposed! But that is exactly what gives the image its graphic and artistic appeal.
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  • Double rainbow on the frontier of an incoming summer storm over the Nossob River Valley
    VGR_20100108_5876.jpg
  • A cloud over the Savute Marsh blocking and dispersing the beaming sun.
    VGR_20101123_2840aB&W.jpg
  • Night scene in the Quiver Tree Forest.
    VGR_20140526_6037.jpg
  • Double rainbow over Kalahari landscape
    VGR_20090106_4733b.jpg
  • Human foot on sharp sand dune ridge
    VGR_20100527_0261.jpg
  • Sossusvlei sand dune abstract
    VGR_20100527_0313.jpg
  • Sossusvlei sand dune abstract
    VGR_20100527_0314.jpg
  • A dramatic stormy sky avances over a Kalahari plains in the summer rainy season.
    VGR_20180207_8389.jpg
  • Spotted eagle-owl perched in tree at night.
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  • A disturbed Crocodile hurries towards the safer dark depths of the Boro Channel.
    VGR_20210418_4523a.jpg
  • Colorful dramatic sunset scene at Deception Valley
    VGR_20120125_0156.jpg
  • Scorpion (a Kalahari Burrower -Opistophthalmus wahlbergii) revealed in the darkness of the night by a UV light.
    VGR_20211225_0400.jpg
  • Tight intimate portrait of a Silverback Gorilla in the rain
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  • Tight intimate portrait of a Silverback Gorilla in the rain
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  • Sand-covered floor in a room in Kolmanskop
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  • Two large elephant bulls standing in a waterhole face-to-face with zebras in the background against an incoming dark stormy sky.
    VGR_20101231_5835B&W.jpg
  • When shooting in rain (and in Botswana we don't get that chance too often, so I am no expert) there are basically two different approaches; one is to use a slow enough shutter speed to blur the rain drops, creating streaks, or two, to use a high shutter speed and freeze the rain drops. The first approach is the more common one. In this case, however, there was enough light due to the conditions, an incoming local storm shower in the late afternoon, resulting in a rainbow against a dark sky plus raindrops reflecting the sunlight. When a fleeting moment like that occurs you are desperate for a subject in the right place and simply have to be thankful for whatever you can find, even if it is not entirely as you had envisaged or dreamt of. Shooting in these conditions was not easy, but a few seconds later shooting was near impossible as it bucketed down..
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  • Two large elephant bulls standing in a waterhole face-to-face with zebras in the background against an incoming dark stormy sky.
    VGR_20101231_5835.jpg
  • Two large elephant bulls standing in a waterhole face-to-face with zebras in the background against an incoming dark stormy sky.
    VGR_20101231_3109.jpg
  • Two large elephant bulls standing in a waterhole face-to-face with zebras in the background against an incoming dark stormy sky.
    VGR_20101231_5847_600x400_WHITE_DIBO...jpg
  • A large elephant bull pushes another larger one whilst standing in a waterhole with zebras and springbok around against an incoming dark stormy sky.
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  • Two large elephant bulls standing in a waterhole face-to-face with zebras in the background against an incoming dark stormy sky.
    VGR_20101231_5847.jpg
  • Light shining through a window is projected on a dark wall
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  • A rain shower is coloured orange when the setting sun dips below a dark kalahari storm cloud.
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  • Camel thorn tree and  yellow dubbeltjies flowers in a summer Kgalagadi landscape with a dark stormy sky
    VGR_20100108_5899a.jpg
  • n summer lightning storms commonly occur in the Kalahari. Photographing them however is not that easy and conditions simply have to be a bit in your favour. In this case we were lucky to find ourselves in such a situation whereby it helped that the storm was in the distance, that it was not raining where we were, nor that there was too much wind to complicate matters even more. The only thing that disturbed us and gave us a bit of a fright was an animal on the run passing closely by in the pitch dark night.<br />
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Lightning bolts are never following one another frequently enough when you are trying to capture them and also in this case I already knew that the most spectacular image would be the result of several exposures blended together.<br />
This image was created out of 6 different exposures, all 30 seconds @ f/2.8, ISO 250 and 400 for the lightning bolts and ISO 2500 for the stars.
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  • Yet another B&W image as my IOTM. This time a high-key approach to a misty Deadvlei scene. I tried a handful of different conversions and it was the strong graphic result of the high-key version that appealed to me. A good example also that maximum detail throughout in lights and darks is not always important. I thought this to be a fitting scene for the December month; with a little imagination you see dead Christmas trees in the snow!
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  • It was the fierce wind on the very top of Kgale Hill that made it feel as if it were below zero. What kept me going in this horrible cold was the sheer beauty of this dawn as well as the technical challenges imposed on me by the wind and darkness. Doesn't Gaborone City look peaceful when it is still half asleep?
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  • An adult Barn Owl (Tyto alba) taking a break on its nightly hunt.<br />
Ghostly pale and normally strictly nocturnal, Barn Owls are predators of the night. These very successful hunters have excellent low-light vision, but it is their impressive hearing, aided by their satellite-dish-shaped faces, that enable Barn Owls to locate mice and other rodents even in total darkness. This species’ eerie screeching call, a long-drawn-out shriek, is unmistakable and a familiar night-time sound in the Kgalagadi.
    VGR_20210818_2332.jpg
  • Three members of a Barn Owl family in their favourite tree.<br />
Ghostly pale and normally strictly nocturnal, Barn Owls are predators of the night. These very successful hunters have excellent low-light vision, but it is their impressive hearing, aided by their satellite-dish-shaped faces, that enable Barn Owls to locate mice and other rodents even in total darkness. This species’ eerie screeching call, a long-drawn-out shriek, is unmistakable and a familiar night-time sound in the Kgalagadi.
    VGR_20210817_8878a-CL.jpg
  • An adult Barn Owl (Tyto alba) taking a break on its nightly hunt.<br />
Ghostly pale and normally strictly nocturnal, Barn Owls are predators of the night. These very successful hunters have excellent low-light vision, but it is their impressive hearing, aided by their satellite-dish-shaped faces, that enable Barn Owls to locate mice and other rodents even in total darkness. This species’ eerie screeching call, a long-drawn-out shriek, is unmistakable and a familiar night-time sound in the Kgalagadi.
    VGR_20210818_2332.jpg
  • A magical moment of the day as the darkness of the night ebbs away at the break of dawn, and all that under a setting moon behind a thin wisp of clouds.
    VGR_20190630_6715-HDRa_900x600_PAPER.jpg
  • Spot-lit female leopard.
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  • A Half-Collared Kingfisher perched on a twig in the darkness of the dense Chobe Riverbank vegetation.
    VGR_20160813_2337B&Wn.jpg