This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
A few months ago I posted a photo of this lioness carrying her cub. This is a different photo and I cropped it to better show their faces, especially the little cub’s tongue hanging out of its mouth. The photo was taken in the Ol Kinyei Conservancy, Kenya.
I posted a photo of this leopard last June with its head pointed in the direction of the camera. I tend to prefer portraits of animals showing both eyes, but I like this profile pose, so here it is. It was taken as the sun was setting.
This is one of two male lions that were the leaders of a pride that I saw every one of the four days I was at Porini Lion Camp. They were easy to find, at least when you have Nelson Keiwua and John Tompoi as your guide and spotter. Canon R5 and EF-17-40L lens. Just kidding. RF-100-500L lens at 500mm.
I photographed this male lion at sunrise in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy. I just read that they weigh up to about 570 pounds. Wow. This guy just exudes power. I’m glad they never jump into safari vehicles that stop for photos just 20 yards away. They never do, right?
When I arrived at Gamewatchers Safaris’ Porini Lion Camp, the first cat I expected to see was, well, a lion, and hopefully a whole pride of lions. As it turned out, the first cat or cats I saw were three cheetah brothers and, a few minutes later, this serval cat who was walking around near us and the cheetahs. The serval is a beautiful little cat about the size of our bobcats here in North America. I don’t know how it survives with all the bigger predators, but it does. Maybe the big cats understand that it mainly feeds on rodents and insects and thus isn’t competing with them for food.
Like most nature photographers, my favorite times to photograph nature are those two hours or so centered on sunrise and sunset. If there are flowers to add color to the scene, so much the better. So, I was happy when this female leopard stopped in this setting for a moment.
It was 6:33pm, one minute after sunset, when I took this photo.
While I went to Kenya last month mainly to photograph the big cats, there were times when I shot other subjects. That was the case with this spotted hyena. I don’t think many people think of hyenas as great subjects to photograph, but this one had the benefit of that golden hour of sunlight like the male lion I posted a week ago. This hyena was photographed at 6:50 a.m. local time. Sunrise was at about 6:30 a.m. then, as I recall.
