Our Blogs
Our blog serves as a valuable resource for wanderlust seekers, offering firsthand experiences, insights, and tips from the safari world. We hope the stories not only inspire and educate but also help you plan your trips, discover hidden gems, and navigate cultural nuances.
Through personal narratives and recommendations the focus is photography and specifically photo safaris.
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Massai Portrait
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I have wanted to shoot an editorial style massai portrait image for a while. What I was looking to produce was a more high key atmospheric shot, featuring the landscape as well as the subject, preferably early morning when the light is low but still bright and slightly warm. Of course it’s great to have
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Wildlife at 20,000 ISO!
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25,600 iso 60mm D700 Chip size and pixel size My favorite Nikon body for shooting low light images is the D700. It’s a full frame low mega pixel camera which means that the pixels it contains have a large surface area that can gather lots of light. The shortfall is that the camera is a
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The Great North
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In this blog I’ve turned my lens to my home in Canada to capture some of the spectacular native wildlife. When dealing with any wildlife safety and caution are advised, the same techniques I use on safari in Africa come in useful here. In this situation my main challenge was lighting due to the vegetation.
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Top Ten Travel Photography Tips
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Here are 10 easy tips to getting the best travel photography on your next trip Before you Go: 1. Research your location – Use search engines to select interesting points and use google earth to pick the best photo spots. If you have a tablet you can also download apps to give you positions for
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Why is This Lion Smiling?
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On a recent photosafari to the Mara, we came across two female lions following a wildebeest calf through the bush. Surprising the wildebeest got away but as we watched the action I could hear the call of a male lion in the distance, we found him watching over the mother of the calf a little