Photography Safari Highlights

In June of this year, I co-led a photography safari with dear friend Georgina Steytler through some of my favourite locations in Kenya. As with all safaris, it was about putting ourselves in position and then making the most of the given situation. Together, myself and Georgina had truckloads of fun with our lovely group of photographers over the course of the ten day journey. I will spare the reader the horde of inside jokes and simply share ten of my favourite images from that trip here. Enjoy!

The sky is the real main character on safari.

I love the subtle, subdued tones of overcast days. This Golden-winged Sunbird posed momentarily between feedings in Kenya's central highlands.

Expanse spoke to me the most on this trip.

Our first morning photography session was a muted sunrise in Amboseli NP.

I photographed this yawning lioness via my camera's articulating screen as I hung out our Landcruiser's window. It happened so serendipitously it almost seemed as if she and I planned the whole thing.

As the lioness in the previous photo moved off into the sunset with some others from her pride, these nearly grown cubs were instructed to stay put. They were a bit impatient, yet obedient. The night was nearly upon the landscape, and the lionesses were on serious business.

Simple, sinuous, symmetrical: a Black-headed Heron crosses our path in the Aberdere Mountains. Strange to see a heron in the highlands, but the mountain range is crisscrossed by a dense network of rivers and streams.

We enjoyed a positively magical sunrise at Lake Naivasha, complete with a layer of loitering mist.

Shapes, textures, and tones all appealed to me in this scene. The Red-faced Crombec in the frame is not missing a tail - they are simply that short-tailed.

Lions are always either asleep or nearly asleep.