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Wilson’s Wharf – Durban

We are down in Durban to attend the 2012 Indaba Tourism Expo and after a day of meetings, media registration and so on we found ourselves down at Wilson’s Wharf at the Durban Harbour. It’s one of our favourite spots … Continue reading

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Buccaneers Backpackers

Guest Blog time: Claire Fraser who handles much of the social media and image distribution for Africa Imagery recently took a well deserved break and headed off to the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape and stayed at Buccaneers Backpackers. Nestled … Continue reading

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From Rhodes to Plettenberg Bay

This account picks up the story as we leave Rhodes in the Drakensberg Mountains of the Eastern Cape after our one night stay en route to Plettenberg Bay and Cape Town. We have friends (Chris and Julie Marias) living in … Continue reading

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Wildlife Panoramas

When one thinks of panoramas the mind automatically leaps to scenes of great vistas and awesome landscapes. (well mine does…) While working on our new book about lions I started playing about with shooting panoramas stitched from 2 or 3 images … Continue reading

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Lion Roaring at MalaMala

We are spending a few days at MalaMala Game Reserve working on our book about lions and on our first evening here came across this male lion on the airstrip. There were some lions calling to the north and he … Continue reading

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Mala Mala Predators

We are at Mala Mala Game Reserve at the moment and are having a very busy time shooting pix for our new book on lions. We’ve been getting some very nice material some of which I have put into a … Continue reading

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Snow, Snow and More Snow

When it snows it South Africa it us usually greeted as something of a special occasion. Everyone behaves like children and there is much building of snowmen and throwing of snow balls. this inevitably leads to cold fingers, feet and, actually, everything … Continue reading

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Lions Pinch Camera Followup

The interest in our Lions Pinch Camera video has been amazing with just under 20 000 view in 2 days! It seems it is on the London Telegraph web site, New York’s ABC Breakfast Show and the Huffington Post. And … Continue reading

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Lions Pinch Camera

While shooting pictures for our new book on lions (www.africanlions.co.za) at Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve (www.tswalu.com) we found some lions patrolling the fence line. We placed our GoPro action camera in their path hoping to catch some good footage of … Continue reading

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Does this Pic Work?

I was showing some of the images we are shooting for our new book on lions (www.africanlions.co.za) to some friends the other night and this one caused a bit of controversy. Some of the group loved it – others thought … Continue reading

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