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  • This is why I love the rainy season in Botswana so much; it offers the opportunity to see incredibly dramatic scenes such as these.<br />
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A storm cloud formation with rainbow at sunset above a lone Mopipi Tree in the beautiful Moreswa Pan in the Kalahari's Khutse Game Reserve.
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  • Doves flying over a lone Wildebeest bull on the open emplty plain of the Mabuasehube Pan
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  • Single dead acacia tree in dead vlei
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  • smiling young malagasy boy standing in front of a wall of a traditionally built house
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  • Gemsbok in a hazy Namib desert landscape.
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  • Dassie rat and his shadow cast on a rock face
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  • A Dassie Rat on a rocky hill in Damaraland.
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  • Elephant bull grazing in Khwai landscape in summer.
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  • Giraffe running over the Nxai Pan plains at sunset
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  • young malagasy girl standing in the smoke of a fire
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  • Gemsbok and a Camelthorn Acacia in Namib desert landscape.
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  • Gemsbok in a hazy Namib desert landscape.
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  • Lone bull elephant in the wind-blown dust at a Savute water hole in the dry season
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  • A Dassie Rat on a rocky hill in Damaraland.
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  • young malagasy girl standing in the smoke of a fire
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  • Gemsbok in a hazy Namib desert landscape at sunrise.
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  • Gemsbok in Namib desert landscape.
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  • Big bull rhinoceros at a waterhole at sunset
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  • Silhouette of a large bull elephant in the Savuti Marsh at sunset
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  • Doves flying over a lone Wildebeest bull on the open emplty plain of the Mabuasehube Pan
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  • smiling young malagasy boy standing in front of a wall of a traditionally built house
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  • Single dead acacia tree against sand dune background at Dead Vlei.
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  • Abstract portrait of an adult Cape Fur Seal
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  • A towering Granddidier's baobabs at baobab alley
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  • 'One in a thousand'<br />
This massive baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) is one of many baobabs rooted on one of the rocky hills that make up the Kgwebe Hills in Northern Botswana.
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  • Probably one of the most awesome aspects of wildlife photography is the acceptance by animals into their world. This beautiful female Bateleur allowed me to get closer and closer as she was drinking from a small waterhole. When we arrived there were in fact 6 individuals at the waterhole! All but one took off on the sound of our vehicle, this one however seemed not to care. Call me strange, but the few quiet minutes I spent with this magnificent bird will remain one of those encounters I will cherish forever.
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  • I simply love dramatic and colorful silhouettes and will not easily forego an opportunity to obtain one, even if it means sacrificing other, more guaranteed, opportunities. This one of a herd of Blue Wildebeest grazing under one of those immensely spectacular colourful Kalahari sunset skies is one of my favorites from the last rainy season, as things just all sort of came together here.
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  • One of my favorites and in my opinion one of the most dramatic, of my series of images of two male lions killing an adult bull giraffe.
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  • Creating good pan-blur shots is not easy at all and involves a lot of trial and error, but to me it is fun and even addictive in a way. I am not easily satisfied with these kind of shots though and also this one is not perfect, but it was one of the better ones from my recent trip and I kind of liked it due to the splashing water.
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  • With the Holiday season just around the corner I figured I shall bring you in the mood with a glorious coastal scene from one of the best spots in South Africa for a break; Cape Town. <br />
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To me it is surprising how calm this 25 seconds long exposure appears, whereas in fact the wind was blowing with a gale-force, continuously blasting me and my camera with sand. The conditions made this image therefore a rather difficult one to create, but looking at the result I am glad I did go out on that beach to face the elements and conquer them.<br />
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This view of Cape Town City and its iconic Table Mountain was created at Sunset Beach, Table View.
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  • This may look like an unfair battle, but believe me, it was a completely innocent one.<br />
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The two rhinos 'fighting' were moving rapidly from right to left and in the original frame of them in this position the small one appearing from the dust is only half in the frame. Seeing it I immediately regretted it was not there entirely. However since I was shooting the action sequence at a high frame rate and panned with the subjects I had captured the 'content' beyond the right frame edge and decided to try and stitch that on; this is the result. Further I cropped the bottom off, which was the (bright) water of a waterhole and OOF grass in the FG, to focus all the attention on the rhinos.<br />
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The image title refers to the uncertain future of this amazing animal species.
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  • One of the Okavango Delta's main channels, meanders through the lush green landscape.
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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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  • A handsome proud male leopard in his prime on the open plains of the Deception Valley. <br />
This is one image from a recently added Gallery titled 'Leopards in Sepia'.
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  • 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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  • June was an exciting month with a trip to the Virunga National Park in the DRC to photograph Gorillas and Volcanoes!<br />
This was one of my favorites from the Gorilla visits . More images and a new gallery to follow soon!<br />
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A female Gorilla framed by out of focus vegetation.
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  • This is one of a series of images of two male lions killing an adult bull giraffe, shot earlier this year in the magnificent Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. An awesome sighting to say the least! To see the entire series check my 'Series' Gallery Collection.
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  • An African Skimmer in flight above the Chobe River is back lit by the very bright sun light reflecting from the water surface.<br />
Generally as a a rule in photography one should avoid having 'blown out' areas in an image as is the case here. However, rules can be broken at times in search of creativity!
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  • A landscape photographer, my friend Johan, at work at the spectacular Epupa Falls in Namibia one glorious morning in February with the falls in flood after the recent rains.
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  • 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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  • Gemsbok are uniquely beautiful antelope with their striking black & white facial markings and extremely long straight pointy horns. The entire scene of a herd of these graceful ungulates one early morning before sunrise in Khutse appealed to me, but what makes this image strong is the positioning of the three Gemsbok. Study the image, look at the positioning of these bold faces and how the horns point towards the same point and follow the markings along the body outlines and see how they all connect, perhaps than you see what I see. The setting full moon in the background is the proverbial 'icing on the cake.
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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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  • 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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  • Portrait of a large Kudu bull with magnificent horns, framed by other Kudu's
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  • Vervet monkeys like to hang around the campsites in Moremi where they harass campers and steal food items. Despite that I actually love them, more especially the youngsters. I was determined to get some close-up shots of one of those cuties and after a few straight forward portrait images I tried some alternative framing. Here I was on my knees to get at eye level with my subject, a baby hanging upside down on its mother’s belly. I framed it such that the head of the adult is excluded; thereby creating an image that may have to make the viewer look twice before understanding what is going on.
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  • A young rhino approaching, potographer from a low angle.
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  • A mother Oryx is defending her already killed calf against a pack of hungry wild dogs.
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  • Two young male lions and one receptive female.
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  • Two young male lions and one receptive female.
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  • Lionesses are silent, patient stalking huntresses that have the ability to become one with the wavey Kalahari grasses.
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  • A herd of Blue Wildebeest grazing in a pan under one of those immensely spectacular colourful Kalahari sunset skies.
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  • Quiver trees at dusk with foreground one artificially lit
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  • Vervet monkeys like to hang around the campsites in Moremi where they harass campers and steal food items. Despite that I actually love them, more especially the youngsters. I was determined to get some close-up shots of one of those cuties and after a few straight forward portrait images I tried some alternative framing. Here I was on my knees to get at eye level with my subject, a baby hanging upside down on its mother’s belly. I framed it such that the head of the adult is excluded; thereby creating an image that may have to make the viewer look twice before understanding what is going on.
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  • Adult Puku Ram and one of its young offspring.
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  • 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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  • When shooting a famous landmark like the Victoria Falls it is extremely difficult to create unique and different shots. One early morning shoot I was fascinated by how the sunlight struck the spray of a small isolated trickle (it was the dry season). It created a rainbow, but not a traditional arc as we normally see it; instead it appeared as continuously moving 'flames'.
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  • The far Eastern corner of Botswana is very different from the rest of the country and one of the main attractions is the beautiful Limpopo river, which forms the border between Botswana and South Africa. The riverine forests with its mighty trees had me fascinated.
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  • 'Bathing in the Dust'<br />
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Zebra dust-bathing in the (almost dry) Boteti River bed at Khumaga. This is one such place that is so iconic of Botswana to me, even though it may not feature on most tourists' itineraries.
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  • 'Namaqua Chameleon hunting'<br />
'Namaqua Chameleon hunting'<br />
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Chameleons are awesome! This particularly beautiful, co-operative and active specimen we spent a long time observing and photographing in the coastal dunes of Namibia. This is a wild specimen, but 'baited' (or rather fed) with bred grubs. Do yourself a favour when in Swakopmund and join one of Tommy's Living Desert tours.
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  • A herd of Blue Wildebeest grazing in a pan under one of those immensely spectacular colourful Kalahari sunset skies.
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