The Luangwa Valley is a special place to visit at any time of the year. I love the early dry season months of April, May and June for the clear light, cool mornings and the active animals which do not have to take shelter from [...]
I just returned from leading a 12-night adventure through 3 camps in the Okavango Delta with a group of repeat guests from the USA. It's a familiar story, but this trip had been planned in 2018 for 2020, then been postponed twice and finally taken [...]
I was walking with my family yesterday and I heard an aggressive, hissing, rattling noise in the bush just off the path that we were using. I stopped and quickly found a large pompilid wasp dragging a huge baboon spider carcass. The wasp had hissed [...]
It was a huge thrill and a privilege to be part of an operation to recover a black rhino called Chilunda and return him to the North Luangwa National Park. Over more than a decade living in Zambia, documenting this memorable day is a massive [...]
It is a time of dramatic seasonal change in Luangwa; the days are shortening, the evenings are cooling and there is a freshness in the air. I start to think about dry season, and make ill-advised comments like "it feels cooler today; maybe the rains [...]
It's been a long time coming, but it looks like we will have a safari season this year! I can't express my excitement about this, and also my gratitude to all my guests who have stuck with me over the last 2 years while we've [...]
I spent a very enjoyable hour at a fruiting Bird Plum tree yesterday. There was soft light, created by a haze of low cloud over the morning sunshine, and an array of fruit-eating birds were feating on the ripe green plums. Initially, I was focused [...]
Silhouette images - in which the subject is defined mostly or entirely by its shape - convey huge visual impact if they are created successfully. Certain elements are important in creating this impact: the subject should be recognisable by its shape; the subject's shape should [...]
I wish more people could visit the Luangwa Valley in February. There are many good reasons why you shouldn't; including, but not limited to, the fierce storms that lash the landscape and thrash the trees; the hot weather and proliferation of insects; the intermittent road [...]
With a wide variety of habitats, ranging from floodplains and river courses to montane forest and high-altitude grassland, Malawi has a fantastic diversity of species in a relatively small area. I just returned from a 2-week trip, split between the lakeshore, the highlands of Nyika [...]
