An iconic African landscape: acacia trees silhouetted at sunrise in Serengeti National Park Tanzania. Every day in Africa I got up in the darkness so I could be in position when the magic light awakened the animals. When it was still too dark to photograph animals, I was able to make some landscape images during the very first moments when the golden light hits the sky. … [Read more...] about Acacia Trees at Sunrise
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Serval in Ngorongoro Crater Tanzania
I’m so excited to be off on a new adventure today! Destination: Iceland. While I’m away, I’ll be publishing a whole bunch of new images on the blog to keep you entertained. These are images that have been ready and waiting for me to write some words to go with them. So I’ve decided not to worry too much about the words and just publish the photos for your … [Read more...] about Serval in Ngorongoro Crater Tanzania
Wildlife Photography in Serengeti National Park – Part 2
My favourite location in my African photo safari was Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. In Part 1 of this series I showed you one of the reasons why: the endless plains provide incredible opportunities to make minimalist images of wildlife in their environment. But I made close-up photos too. When it comes to the close-up photos, I think the most important thing is to … [Read more...] about Wildlife Photography in Serengeti National Park – Part 2
Buffalo Horns in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
One thing that caught me by surprise when I visited Africa was realizing that everything is covered in bones! I mean, of course it is (duh) I just didn't think of it until I saw it. Since I'm committed to only photographing beautiful things, I didn't photograph many of the bones. Also because we weren't allowed out of the jeep very often and the top down perspective isn't … [Read more...] about Buffalo Horns in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
Conveying Motion: A Wildebeest Abstract
There are two ways to convey motion in an image: freeze the motion or blur the motion. While watching wildebeest cross the Mara river during the migration in Tanzania, and making many photos that froze the action, it was time to start experimenting with slow shutter speeds to create a more abstract image that contains some motion blur. I changed my camera settings to a low … [Read more...] about Conveying Motion: A Wildebeest Abstract