Surely the most elegant of all birds, I spent a long time enjoying watching a pair of Southern Crowned Cranes. After a while, they moved around so that the light was behind them and I was able to take some photos of them foraging in [...]

It's been cloudy almost every afternoon that I've been in the park this week. It makes me realise that I do miss the guaranteed afternoon golden light of the dry season. But there are some situations which work well in overcast conditions, provided you can [...]

I was going through some folders of old images the other day, and came across this sequence of a lion pride feeding on a hippo carcass! Not sure why I hadn't posted them before, but here they are, in all their gory detail...

Christmas feels a little different here in the Luangwa. Hot and sweaty is the order of the day, with the high chance of rain being the only similarity with a UK Christmas. Here a roosting flock of Egrets gave us our Christmas tree. The hippos [...]

.....have well and truly arrived now. There is long green grass everywhere, the lagoons are filling and the chorus from the birds is deafening as they prepare for breeding. I took a nice drive in the park a few days ago and was pleased to [...]

You would think that with all the nice new grass around, the elephants would be content to feed and not pay much attention to anything else. Not so with this young bull who showed considerable bravado and aggression towards me when I tried to take [...]

As the rains arrive, and the storm clouds build, we get some awesome sunsets. Here's one from a week ago, and even though I've seen a thousand sunsets, I still took a number of photos of this one! And when you turn with your back [...]

This is the time of year for baby animals. Baboons, monkeys, impalas, puku, warthogs, and especially elephants. This little one was only a few hours old. The mother's legs were still covered in blood and he was very shaky on his own legs. We struggled [...]

It's not too often that everything comes together to give a perfect scene, but I was lucky to observe one the other day. Beautiful morning light, a clean view of the animals, gorgeous colours and a lovely intimate moment....some days it seems so easy!

There's a small spring nearby where many animals drink when there's no other water around. A couple of hippos made it their home this year as well, but recently one of them succumbed to the lack of nutrition and died in the lagoon surrounding the [...]