Category: Digital photography

Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas, Chacal à chabraque, Chacal de lomo negro o chacal de gualdrapa). Kenya, Masai Mara, September 2008.

We would be troubled thinking about the future of this migration. Wildebeests and zebras are depending simultanesouly on free access to enormous tracts of lands (more and more limited by Human activities) and ecological stability (that could be seriously unbalanced by the global warming). The Great Migration: This is the name of this major and…

The “Great migration” in Kenya and Tanzania is the move of gnus (wildebeests) but also of zebras. Usually, I have a tough time to find inspiration when shooting these animals. But in last September, I believe that I found how to draw a few good images of these zebras. Burchell’s zebra (Equus burchellii, zèbre de…

Giraffes, here is a weird animal. On of the real bizarre things in nature. You can often see young males fighting: It seems that they are fighting in a very slow motion. Despite that, it is a very aggressive behaviour and the males use that to decide hierarchies and access rights to the females. .…

The Southern Eland is the largest savanah antelope (bulls may weigh 700-800kg). Very shy, it runs away at first sight of a human being or a car. Difficult snapshot, guaranteed. Southern Eland (Taurotragus oryx, Elan du Cap, antílope eland común). Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.