Author Archives: Tom

In my YouTube video “Incident Report: A Leopard and Cubs, a Kill up a Tree, and Hyena” I document a complex set of interactions that center around a common theme, which is a female predator with cubs tries to feed … Continue reading →

One of the most interesting sets of interactions we had on our trip happened at Nxabega Tented Camp in Botswana. Lions are, of course, pride animals. There’s a dominant male or a “coalition” of brothers, multiple females, and cubs. Often … Continue reading →

One of the most appropriately named rivers we’ve seen in Africa is the Sand River, which runs through some of the private reserves west of Kruger National Park in South Africa. We’ve probably had over a dozen multi-day safaris in … Continue reading →

A lot of African safari time is spent driving around looking, listening, and (yes) smelling for something. Kills, not surprisingly, have a pretty distinct odor, particularly if they’ve been there a while. However, predators don’t kill to add to the … Continue reading →

In my post on the baby elephant nursing by our room at Nxabega Tented Camp, I mentioned that you never know how habituated elephants and others animals might be, and how they might react. In Incident Report: 24 Hours of … Continue reading →

Sometimes you don’t even need to be on a game drive to see something rare and interesting. We were in Nxabega Tented Camp in the Okavango Delta, and as usual we had asked for the most remote room in the … Continue reading →

One of the changes I made between my last pre-COVID African adventure and my first after COVID was focusing on videography rather than on photography to record our travels and sightings. Shooting video radically reduces the time and effort required … Continue reading →

We finally completed our twelfth trip to Africa, after COVID delays and flight issues resolved themselves. We ended up being in four camps for a total of 28 safari days, and we absolutely loved the trip. It offered us a … Continue reading →

I’ve had a couple of months to play with my Z6 and Z7 II, which have replaced my D750 and D500, respectively, and I wanted to share my views at this point. Recall that the motivation for the move was … Continue reading →

Like most travel and adventure photographers, I’ve gone around many times on the question of camera support.  It’s a special problem with wildlife, and most of all, with birds.  Critters of any sort never seem to understand how difficult it … Continue reading →