Category: wildlife
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Much Ado About Puffins
“Seabirds are ideal symbols for ocean conservation… Because they live in a variety of habitats-including oceans, islands, estuaries and beaches-they can show visitors how all coastal life is connected and spark new interest in coastal conservation. Long-term conservation success hinges on public understanding and community support.” – Stephen Kress They look like cartoon characters taken…
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Surprisingly Wonderful Newfoundland: OUR PLANET Geological History At Its Best
I WENT TO PHOTOGRAPH PUFFINS, BUT I ENDED UP WITH SO MUCH MORE “It’s the place where land, water and sky embrace like old friends”. -Newfoundland Saying At the beginning of 2012 I began looking for a destination for my next photo safari, after being in Africa the previous year I must confess it was…
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The Mighty Elephant, the Real King of the Savanna
“The premature elimination of elephants over much of their range represents one of the most wasteful mammalian tragedies of the century” -Ian Douglas Hamilton, 1987 I’m closing these series of posts exactly one year after my unforgettable trip to the Masai Mara, and for the end I left the best, my absolute favorite animal, the…
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Giraffes The Gorgeous Blondes of the African Savanna
Watching a giraffe is like walking in New York or Chicago while looking in awe at those magnificent skyscrapers, but like skyscrapers against a bright sky, giraffes can be very tricky to photograph. They are too tall!! -P.C Giraffes are the tallest living animals on our planet, and their amazing height, combined with their peculiar…
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From Dik-Dik to Eland, there is an Antelope for Everything
“One of the most impressive aspects of the African wildlife experience is the presence of up to a dozen different antelopes in the same area. Yet it was by taking measures to minimize competition by becoming different species that such a diverse array of antelopes came to exist in the first place.” -Robert D. Estes,…
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Goodbye Clawed, Enjoy Savanna Heaven!
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when…
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And The Winner is The Secretarybird…
“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.” Aesop, (620 BC – 560 BC) from The Jay and the Peacock Yes, I’m still talking about beautiful animals. How can’t I, after being in such an amazing place where nature is at its best? A sight to be seen, this peculiar and gorgeous bird…
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Expert Advice on Bird Photography from Someone that is Not Very Good at It
“Oh, for the wings of a dove, men, envious, cry. What bones, what muscles, have birds and not I, That give them freedom of the boundless sky?” – Joel Peters I imagine you would ask yourself, then, why should I read this?…Well for starters there are good pictures of amazing and unique African birds, and…
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And The Most Photogenic Animal in the African Savanna is?
The zebra… “There is a place where the grass meets the sky, and that is the end” -Maasai saying Now you probably wonder, why? or how did you arrive to this conclusion? Well, first as I always say when I begin a post about something that not everybody will agree with, this is my own…
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The Greatest Spectacle on Earth…
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature…” By Frank Lloyd Wright Yes, indeed…Every year millions of us along with hundreds of thousands of zebras and gazelles are responsible for the most spectacular mass movement of terrestrial mammals anywhere in the world. Thousands of people around the world come to the Masai Mara between…
Conservation and Photography 