by Thomas | Jul 26, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
The Lioness that we spotted carrying her new born cubs in Serengeti National Park, finally emerged from the tall grass and walked upto our jeep with her other cub in tow. As he came out of the tall grass, we took our first clear picture of the new born cub. She put...
by Thomas | Jul 5, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
Carrying on from where we left off in the previous post – the African Lioness carrying her new born cubs, probably to be introduced to the pride, made a sudden change in direction. She was now headed directly towards our vehicle. I made the most of this...
by Thomas | Jun 14, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
We were on our first safari into central Serengeti National Park when we spotted a Lioness at a distance. At first it looked like she was carrying a kill. I zoomed in with my 600mm f/4 lens only to be pleasantly surprised, that it wasn’t a kill – instead...
by Thomas | May 24, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Featured, Places, Serengeti, Tanzania
We were visiting Serengeti National Park after a gap of almost ten years and we were excited! We reached Serena Serengeti lodge late in the afternoon and soon headed on a short evening game drive. The late afternoon looked pretty and our driver mentioned to us about...
by Thomas | May 10, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara, Places
This post showcases some images of Maasai Mara that simply convey the paradise that it is. The feature picture is a pride of Lions hiding in the bushes looking out probably for prey to come close by. And the picture below is that of a male African Elephant calmly...
by Thomas | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Birds, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
This post is all about the many birds that we spotted in Maasai Mara in between the hustle and bustle of searching for and spotting the Big 5. The White-browed Coucal perched on a bush getting itself warmed in the early morning sun was a lovely composition. The...
by Thomas | Apr 12, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
After the exciting sightings of the Caracal and the Serval, we reached the area of the most popular Leopardess of Maasai Mara. But she wasn’t on her favourite tree and we moved ahead in search of her. After going around for a while, we got news that she was...
by Thomas | Mar 29, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
After the amazing sighting of the Caracal, we drove towards the territory of a bold Leopard only to be stopped in our tracks by a Serval that was busy hunting her breakfast. This is one cat that didn’t like wet paws, as captured in the image below. It was a...
by Thomas | Mar 15, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
We set off on a morning game drive in Maasai Mara National Park – the sun was just about to rise over the distant mountains when Emanuel, our driver and naturalist, spotted something sitting by the road. When we got within shooting range we stopped the vehicle...
by Thomas | Mar 1, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
We were driving along on an afternoon game drive in Maasai Mara National Park when we noticed a Topi along with its calf close to road. We switched to our telephoto lens and zoomed in to get a nice composition of the mother and calf. We then drove to another area of...
