Safari Updates

We are now two days into our new ODP Photographic Safari at Elephant Plains and what fun we have had in that time. Yesterday afternoon and evening  we had a great photo shoot with a pride of five lioness which we found during our afternoon drive and then followed into the evening, giving us further opportunity to practice our night time photography using spotlights as a light source. The lioness were excellent subjects; stalking prey, playing with each other, chasing birds, mutual grooming...... this kept us and our cameras very busy. This morning greeted us with a beautiful African sunrise and was soon complimented with a sighting of a a female leopard and two nine month old cubs. The cubs were very playful with lots of stalking, tree climbing and general misbehaviour - all within a few metres of our vehicle that was expertly positioned by our very competent driver ! Needles...

Well we are once again back at Elephant Plains and looking forward to a great safari! Our first afternoon drive today was quite overcast and windy but we still managed to find the Tsalala pride of lions and spent the majority of the afternoon with them, after playing the waiting game, they eventually started getting active, and they produced some great photographic opportunities! Holding thumbs for good weather and looking forward to see what day 2 has in store for us!...

We had a great time on our june photographic at Elelephant plains .I must say it was the first real cold spell for the  winter and we defiantly new that winter had arrived as we felt it in the morning on the open game viewers. The bush is surprisingly green and thick for this time of the year as a result of the late rains, but still a good experience. Although there are never any guarantees Elephant Plains  is a excellent location to photograph the cats and we had some good opportunities to practice back lighting and side lighting with these magnifient creatures. looking forward to the next safari...