Travel and Photography
This is a site of photography and travel articles. Photography is so close to me now that I can’t imagine not doing it. And travel has been important since I was a teenager, and read this if you want to know exactly How I Caught The Travel Bug. Lions Playing One great thing about photography is …
We stayed at the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town in South Africa. The hotel is lovely and right in the heart of the city. We flew overnight Club Class to Cape Town with BA. At Heathrow we went through fast-track security for business class passengers, a small room, and a noticeably more relaxed …
Greater kudu photographed in failing light at Gorah, in Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa. I shot this with my Nikon D500 and Nikkor Nikon 70-300mm f4.5-5.6E ED VR AF-P lens.. The kudu were quite close. The EXIF data on my camera tells me I shot it at ISO 4,000, 1/400 second. f6.3, with …
On a game drive in the bush in South Africa you bump up and down a lot. You will probably be riding in an open-top Toyota Land Cruiser. We’ve been to four reserves and they all use Land Cruisers. I asked a couple of times whether they would use Land Rovers and they said that …
This is a Hadada ibis (sometimes called the Hadeda ibis), and once you have heard one calling out, you will know why it is called that. They have a distinctive three-syllable call ‘ha da da’ with a loud, penetrating, rasping sound. When flying they hold their wings at right angles to their bodies. Seeing them …