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The urge to climb, a volcano

2012-12-13T14:10:00.000+02:00

We arrive near the top, just in time for sunset. The whole place stinks, sulphur steaming from the side vents and the light is beautiful. I ask our group to stop. I’m exhausted but we are almost at the top. I grab the camera and try take a few images. Anywhere off the...

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The magic of Svalbard and its polar bears

2012-12-03T11:55:00.000+02:00

It is hard to describe a place that is just so foreign to any other place on earth. I have travelled to cold environments before. I did 3 winters in -20 C Switzerland and 21 days in northern Japan where the thermometer dropped down to -25 one morning, so it was not...

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At the whim of the Masai Mara: 10 years on.

2012-11-23T10:31:00.000+02:00

This year was my ten-year anniversary in the Masai Mara. In 2002, together with André Cloete, I was on a 7-month self-drive safari through Africa. We were on a mission to see Africa for ourselves and visit and photograph all the great game parks of Africa. It was the...

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Namibia Photo Tour Video

2012-10-24T13:57:00.002+02:00

Through C4 Images and Iconic Images I was involved in this project. As you will see it is a brilliantly put together video of a Photo Safari I arranged together with Iconic Images in Namibia, July 2012. Sit back, relax and enjoy the brilliant editing, visuals and...

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The Travelling Photographer

2012-09-11T15:41:00.001+02:00

There is one universal truth I have found when travelling on aeroplanes: It is a tiring business. A long day of flight connections, queues, endlessly lifting and putting down camera bags, being exposed to high (-er than normal) levels of radiation and the accumulative...

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D800e: A month in the field

2012-08-13T09:36:00.000+01:00

The Nikon D800E and me The D800 caused some stir in the world of photography when it was first announced. Here is a SLR camera that promises medium format resolution but in a nice small camera body. Initially I was sceptical of its suitability for my needs, but the...

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Dead Vlei, Namibia

2012-07-17T08:31:00.001+01:00

I have been to Dead vlei in Namibia about 20 times in my life. Of course the place is quite magical, but from a photography perspective, each visit makes it more difficult find a different composition. The benefit of past experiences allows some planning and dreaming...

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Shooting the Pressure cooker

2012-06-11T10:59:00.001+01:00

When was the last time you photographed under serious pressure, where you felt that sense of being overwhelmed by the situation and everything seems to be moving at high speed while you cannot keep up? (Click on images below to enlarge) I thought I had seen...

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Making the dream

2012-05-28T14:52:00.001+01:00

I had one of the weirdest sensations this last week. I realised a dream. It wasn’t the type of dream that one has in bed asleep. I was once told that you should “dream during the day”, and I have followed that advise ever since. My dream was to build platforms in the...

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A Glimpse of Eden

2012-05-17T08:31:00.000+01:00

South Luangwa was the destination and flying in I noticed how green this part of the Rift valley is. Of course the recent rainy season was the cause and the oxbow lakes, the Luangwa river and floodplains were all full to the brim. A beautiful green covered the whole...

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C4 Photo hide action

2012-05-09T13:36:00.002+01:00

C4 Images and Safaris have built an underground photo hide at Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana. The water in front of the hide is attracting large herds of elephant every day giving the wildlife photographer and viewer a unique perspective and proximity to these large...

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A Beautiful Mind

2012-04-17T09:34:00.001+01:00

I love it when I take tourists out in South Africa. It gets me into places I would never really go. And when my tourist is Art Wolfe, then of course there are cameras that come out which means I add to my portfolio. It also meant that I was working on scenes and...

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Namibian dreams amongst barley fields

2012-03-26T11:46:00.000+02:00

If you told me that Namibia was a desert, you would be forgiven my insistence that it is more a great green field of flowing barley littered with very bad architecture. That's in the month of March. The bad architecture remains the whole year round. I have just...

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Art Wolfe in South Africa

2012-03-05T14:58:00.000+02:00

"Art Wolfe’s photographs are a superb evocation of some of the most breathtaking spectacles in the world.” — Sir David Attenborough For over 30 years, Art Wolfe has photographed on every continent. He has authored over 65 books, each full of outstanding images....

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The best lens you never had

2012-01-31T09:38:00.002+02:00

The largest 'one-off' images sale I made was for $22 000. It was with a consumer-grade-kit-lens that came with a consumer grade digital camera. It was a 18-70mm f3.5-5.6 or something along those lines. It sucked dust like a vacuum but was light, produced decent quality...

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54 000 ways to improve your images

2012-01-26T09:48:00.000+02:00

It seems the more people have access to the Internet, the more articles on "top 10 ways to improve your.... " pop out. They have become so popular I even found one for brushing my teeth the other day. After 35 years of doing a basic hygiene routine, here was an article...

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My (42) 000 best images of 2011…

2012-01-24T10:00:00.000+02:00

And 54 000 tips on how to improve your images in Lightroom… At the end of each year photographers gain an affliction to display what they think is their best work of the 365 days prior. Its something I now struggle with because if I showed you my favourite images...

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Missing the shot

2011-11-21T09:28:00.003+02:00

As good a photographer you are- how do you react when the one shot you really want, slides past you? Most of us wont admit it openly, but I know we all miss images. Most of the time these are fleeting scenes that I’ve dreamt of taking, BBC winners, Nat geo covers… So...

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Simply Safari

2011-11-16T13:57:00.000+02:00

Kenya: The ultimate safari destination, or so the book should read. From Hemingway to Selby, all have found and known Kenya to be the ultimate safari. I've just returned from a total of 5 weeks' safari in that wonderful place and am already longing for those open...

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News from the Mara

2011-10-10T12:15:00.000+02:00

The second week has been as hectic in the animal action department as the first. I cant start to tell you how busy the plains have been, but the highlight was watching a lioness hunt and kill a wildebeest calf right in the middle of a crossing! Enjoy and more pics to...

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Update from the Masai Mara

2011-10-03T14:25:00.001+02:00

Been here a week now. It always amazes me upon my arrival how much there is to photograph here- the action and intensity of the Masai Mara is way above any place I know I the world. It leaves you physically exhausted and challenged. And I love it. Here are a few images...

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Inspirational dedication: Life aboard Whalesong

2011-09-13T09:27:00.000+02:00

Curt and Mich Jenner don’t own a home on land, never have. They own a boat. The first one they built by hand. It took them 18 months of blood sweat and living in a wooden shack but it got them out onto the open seas. Why? They wanted to study whales. And nothing was...

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Camden Sound and The Kimberley

2011-08-29T08:40:00.000+01:00

Tucked away in the remote north-west corner of Australia lies a starkly beautiful group of islands grouped adjacent one of the last wilderness areas in Australia. The Kimberley region is world known for its wilderness feel and remote beauty with canyons, creeks and...

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A Whalesong of a time.

2011-08-25T15:09:00.008+01:00

Twelve male humpback whales were thrashing the surface of the water in a mad, testosterone laced frenzy that only 40 tonnes of beast can manage. It caught my eye, some 3 miles away, and we immediately headed towards them. A few minutes later, with some expert guidance...

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Eastward bound

2011-08-01T08:41:00.007+01:00

Diversity. Of life, photo’s, subjects, of interest. Its what keeps me wondering about what’s around that next corner. And that’s why I’m headed east again. This time it’s to the Antipodes- Yep good old Australia. Ill be presenting a photography master class while...

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