This is Tusker, a male African Elephant that lives on the Eastern side of the Serengeti. He was named Tusker obviously due to his large-sized tusks. Although not quite the size of the tusks found on a few elephants in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, they are still the largest I have seen in Tanzania. He was also special to me as one of my old hit videos games was also called Tusker. I took this shot of Tusker just before a huge rainstorm last summer giving me a nice grey sky to shot against.

Technical specification

Nikon D6; AF-S NIKKOR 70-200 mm f/2.8 FL ED VR  lens at 200mm; 1/1000 sec at f5.6; ISO 3200

Flamingos in flight

A flock of Lesser Flamingos in flight set across the Ngorongoro Crater as a backdrop. ⁣
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Technical specifications

Shot on a Nikon D6 using a Nikkor 800mm f5.6 lens⁣ at ISO 7200 at f7.1 and 1/2000 sec

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On the banks of Lake Nzerakera, this crocodile sees something of interest and moves with pace into the lake. Ever an opportunistic apex predator, the Nile Crocodile is very aggressive. It is one of the most dangerous species of a crocodile in the world taking many human lives each year throughout Africa.

Technical specifications

Shot on a Nikon D6 using ISO 2000 at f8 and 1/1250 sec on the superb Nikkor 800mm f5.6 lens⁣

Tug of war – These two lionesses both want the intestines of the Cape buffalo they have taken down. Neither wants to give up the prized part of the animal and engage in a tug of war. This image was captured in the Ngorongoro Crater of Tanzania. ⁣

Technical specification

Shot on a Nikon D6 with an AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4 E FL ED V lens using ISO 2500 at f8 and 1/2,500 sec handheld

A Black Rhino in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania.

An animal on the Red Critically Endangered List. Protected by armed park rangers 24/7, its history has been one of great struggle. Poaching up until the 1990s was out of control in Tanzania. In 1993, FZS (Frankfurt Zoological Society) started a joint conservation project with Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority in Ngorongoro to support the authority in maintaining the last 12 black rhinos in Ngorongoro Crater and Moru, in the Serengeti. They put in place a new rhino monitoring program, installed VHF radio communications systems, and constructed a rhino observation post above the Lerai Forest in Ngorongoro.
Between October/November 1995, in a bid to find out whether there were any more rhinos than the 12 of 1993, park rangers found only three rhinos in the Serengeti. A female calf was born in Serengeti’s Moru to the youngest female, Mama Serengeti, at the end of that year. FZS and Tanzania National Parks joined efforts to protect the Moru rhinos. In the same year, Amina, a young adult female in Ngorongoro, was killed and its horns removed. Its 9-month old calf Richard was captured and raised near Arusha national park for two years. This was a big blow to the breeding population as there were only 4 productive females in Ngorongoro at that time. Now, after such a hard beginning, the 9 black rhinos in Ngorongoro and 3 in Moru, Serengeti have increased in population from 12 to 50 Black Rhinos. This is a critically engaged animal with less than 5,000 Black Rhinos roaming Africa today compared to over 70,000 in 1970.one terrace.

Technical specification

Nikon D6; AF-S NIKKOR 800m f5.6 lens; 1/1250 sec at f5.6; ISO 1800 handheld

Two large African elephants go to battle locking trunks in Tanzania’s Northern Serengeti. The light was dropping and so the darker sky added to the scene. Like most animal duels, it seems to end as quickly as it started without a clear victor.

Technical specification

Nikon D6 using a AF-S NIKKOR 600 mm f/4E FL ED VR  lens at 600mm; 1/2000 sec at f8; ISO 5600

My last shot of Solo

This is Solo. She is stalking in the mornings golden light in Bandhavgarh National Park in India. She was the star tiger in David Attenborough’s wildlife series, Dynasties. I took this shot of her back in February 2020. Sadly, she and her cub were recently found dead. She was poisoned nine months after I took this image, thought to be by local villagers. This is due to the conflict tigers have with local villagers in the buffer zone around the National Park. Tigers come in and take the locals cattle. This is sadly a common issue now with most wildlife. Man is becoming more and more of a problem as the human population explodes globally and its grab and lust for more and more land encroaches on wildlife habitat. this leads to the inevitable conflict. This was the very last image I took of Solo.

Technical Specifications

Shot on a Nikon D5 with a 180-400 1.4 f4 TC  lens shot at 380mm, f6.3 at 1/1250th sec and ISO 720 handheld.

On Patrol

This is Ziggy, the brother of Bob. Ziggy and his brother control the most successful pride of lions that consist of 7 females and currently 19 cubs in Tanzania’s Serengeti. Here, he patrols their territory in the mornings golden light in.

Technical specification

Nikon D6; AF-S NIKKOR 800 mm f/5.6. ED lens at 800mm; 1/2000 sec at f5.6; ISO 800.

This is Scarface. He is a brown bear and the alpha male on the stretch of Khakyitsin River in Kamchatka, Russia we were camped up by.

Technical specification

Nikon D850; AF-S NIKKOR 180-400mm f/4E TC1.4 FL ED VR lens at 180 mm; 1/640 sec at f8; ISO 1000.

The Painted Wolf ⁣
This is one of many shots I captured of various packs of painted wolves in Selous, Tanzania recently. Why do I not call this animal an African wild dog? Well, actually there are around 10 various names for this animal. I am following the cue of the BBC Dynasties program. The name “African Wild Dog” is not worthy of such a rare and magnificent animal according to the BBC. This is the second most endangered carnivore in Africa after the Ethiopian wolf. There are only 4,000 to 6,000 estimated of these animals left in the world. The Red List documents the animal as an engaged animal.

Personally, I love the name Painted wolf, but you decide what name you prefer. They have been known as Cape Hunting Dog, African Hunting Dog, Hunting Dog, African Wild Dog, Wild Dog, Hyena Dog, Painted Dog, Painted Hunting Dog, Painted Wolf and the Ornate Wolf. Please tell me in the comments below the name you prefer.⁣

Technical specification

Nikon D6; AF-S NIKKOR 600 mm f/4 FL ED VR  using ISO 3200 at 1/1000 sec at f5.6;

Almost human

Whist seeking out tigers in Bandhavgarh National Park, the Langur monkeys were most interesting to observe. Their communal behaviour with each other seemed very human. The way they reacted with each other and even the way they mourned the death of a troop member. I wanted to try and capture some of these human-type characteristics. Observing this Langur, he sat on a log with his hands on his legs. It was so similar to how we sit and act. I could almost imagine a human soul sat in his body, acting just as we do.

Technical Specifications

Shot on a Nikon D5 with a 180-400 1.4 f4 TC  lens shot at 380mm, f8 at 1/500th sec and at ISO 450 handheld.

After feasting for a few hours by the edge of the Kurilskoye Lake in Kamchatka, this brown bear decided to take a nap. The salmon were abundant this year, and with a belly full of the fish, sleep was the order for the next few hours.

Technical specification

Nikon D850; AF-S NIKKOR 800 mm f/5.6E FL ED VR  lens at 800mm; 1/1600 sec at f11; ISO 3200

Young female cheetah

It was that moment of the day when the light was closing, and the sun had already dropped. The blue hour was upon us. I captured this image of young female Cheetah in the Central Serengeti that we had been observing all afternoon. Until recently, this area of the Serengeti has been closed off for 20 years for Cheetah conservation. This female had just made a kill earlier and was calling out to her young litter of cubs. ???????????????????? ???????? @????????????????_???????????????? If you like my images then please follow me on Instagram, ⁣

Technical specification

Shot on the new Nikon D6; on the new AF-S NIKKOR 120-300 mm f/2.8E FL ED VR  lens at 190mm using ISO 1280  1/1600 sec at f2.8

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On the banks of Lake Nzerakera in Selous, Nile crocodile’s are abundant. Ever an opportunistic apex predator, the Nile Crocodile is very aggressive. It is one of the most dangerous species of a crocodile in the world taking many human lives each year throughout Africa. This crocodile is taking to the water.

Technical specifications

Shot on a Nikon D6 with a Nikkor 600mm f4 lens using ⁣ISO 8000 at f7.1 and 1/2000 sec handheld

Having just feed off a kill, this lionesses’ first priority was to clean her cub. Cleaning up her blood-stained body could wait. This shot was taken in Tanzania’s Serengeti.

Technical Specifications

Shot on a Nikon D6 with a Nikkor 800 f5.6E FL ED lens shot at 800mm, f8 at 1/1600th sec and at ISO 1000 handheld.

A subspecies of the brown bear, the Kamchatka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus), also known as the “Far Eastern brown bear”, and is native to the Kamchatka Peninsula in Eastern Russia. These two young males fight over fishing rights on part of a river.

Technical specification

Nikon D850; 70–200mm f/2.8G ED VRII lens at 200mm; 1/800 sec at f9; ISO 1

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A big storm was brewing as the sky turned dark grey. This small herd of African Elephants were looking to get to high ground before the rain starts, and the wet season gets underway. The shot was taken in the Serengeti, Tanzania.⁣
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Technical specifications

Shot on a Nikon D6 on a Nikon 180-400mm f4 1.4 TC lens at 180mm using ISO 2000 at f11 and 1/200th sec