Wild4 African Photographic Safaris: July 2010

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Tailor Made Photo Safari JULY 2010

Here is a selection of photos from the July photo safari, a tailor made trip which included a visit to the Kruger National Park and the Klaserie Reserve.

Enjoy

Best wishes

Stu

Tawny Eagle near Lower Sabie in Kruger National Park

Elephants - Kruger Park

Burchell's Coucal - Kruger Park

Cheetah brothers near Duke Waterhole - Kruger Park

Elephant at sunset - Kruger Park

Hammerkop in flight - Kruger Park

Hippo - Kruger Park

Mating Honey Badgers inside Satara Camp - Kruger Park

African Hoopoe - Satara Camp, Kruger Park

Male Kudu drinking - Kruger Park

Running Kudu - Kruger Park

Lions - Kruger Park

Martial Eagle - Kruger Park

Aloes in Lower Sabie Camp - Kruger Park

Male Ostrich and Hyaena - Kruger Park

White Rhino - Kruger Park

A rare herd of Sable Antelope - Kruger Park

Blue Wildebeest running - Kruger Park

Wooly Necked Stork - Kruger Park

Zebra dust bathing - Kruger Park

Verreaux's Eagle Owl - Klaserie Reserve

Young Male Cheetah - Klaserie Reserve

Elephant Herd drinking - Klaserie Reserve

African Hawk Eagle - Klaserie Reserve

Spotted Hyaena with Baboon kill - Klaserie Reserve

on safari - Klaserie Reserve

Purple Roller - Klaserie Reserve

Female Leopard with Impala kill - Klaserie Reserve

Female Leopard - Klaserie Reserve

Thursday, July 8, 2010

LIONS & Leopards Photo Safari - June / July 2010

Here are a few photos from the "Lions & Leopards of the Klaserie & Timbavati" photo safari.

Two participants also did the two night Forest Lodge extension to photograph the vultures and african reptiles.

Client photos will follow shortly :)

The 3 nights spent at the Big Cat Reserve provided great photo opportunities of Lion, Leopard and Cheetah and an excellent introduction to the trip. Photo skills and techniques were put to the test, and by the end of the 4 days everyone was ready to put their panning, night photography, flash, timelapse and manual shooting methods into practice on the second part of the safari.

The 6 nights at Gomo Gomo Lodge in the Klaserie, part of the greater Kruger Park, provided excellent and numerous Elephant & Buffalo sightings. Elephants drank every day at the waterhole right in front of the lodge where we photographed them from the comfort of our chairs. We spent time with 2 White Rhinos in lovely morning light. The Lion pride was deep in thick bush, most likely enjoying a buffalo kill but we did manage to locate one of the pride males which we spent a wonderful 2 hours with as he patrolled his territory, marked bushes and roared to locate the rest of his pride.

We had two excellent Leopard sightings, the first of which was spent with a male leopard as he tried to get a Goshawk to drop its fresh spurfowl kill, and in the end the Leopard suceeded. Whilst shooting the sunrise one morning we heard a group of Kudu giving an alarm call and our investigation found a female leopard with a fresh Impala kill. Her shy cub lurked in the back ground as she ate some of the kill before dragging it to the safety of a small drainage line.

Many thanks to the Gomo staff and to Johan our ranger and Geoff our tracker.

Apart from the great sightings on the trip I am very pleased to announce that the specialized photographic shooting platforms proved to be very succesful and we will be making use of them on all future photo trips to Gomo Gomo. See the video below.

Enjoy !
Until next time
Stu