Sometime in late 2017, I was approached with a surprise invitation to enter into the world of safari – something truly and doubtlessly lost in the land of unreachable dreams. Being no stranger to exploring the unknown, I answered firmly in the affirmative. While I do not consider myself a veteran, nor have I come close to seeing it all, I have garnered some level of experience and knowledge over the years. This year, the number of groups I've led on safari has rolled into double figures, and...

This advice may be trite yet that fact doesn't detract from its worthiness. In fact, it remains a most favoured aspect of my personal ethos. I've seen far too many people lose their footing with their heads in the clouds for me to forget my roots. For my photographic journey, I consistently return to old images, dusting them off for new projects as quickly as the ideas come. Late yesterday afternoon, as I gazed into the western sky as it dove deeper and deeper into the blue end of the...

After our safaris in 2024, I prepared a series of posts detailing our experiences, to be published with the accompanying images. Some have since been shared on this blog, but a few passages fell into oblivion, buried under piles of other ideas, recent trips, and far too many projects. Both these environments rank highly among our preferred places to be. On "regular" safaris, we typically don't visit either, but we do occasionally run specialised trips that involve at least one of these gems....