2/3rds of my time here is now over – time has flown by! Damien and Francesca have just spent a week here and I’ve dropped them off for their onward journey to Durban Airport. Another of life’s rich experiences also ticked off this morning – being the only white person in a busy petrol station and shop, then a one […]
Mkuze is another reserve about 45 minutes drive from here. There are some hides there, and we spent a few hours at one of them right over a waterhole. Upon arrival somebody had the bright idea of passing the home baked muffins around before we went into the hide, so we sat munching happily for a few minutes. Imagine how […]
We’ve attempted motion blur – with varying degrees of frustration and success. Motion blur is when you set your camera to a slow shutter speed, and pan with a moving object or subject, or in our case, moving animal. The hard bit is that you can’t pre-determine just how fast they will move, so don’t know how fast to pan […]
Dawn! Sunrise is just as amazing as sunset. As summer approaches here we are starting our game drives 30 minutes earlier, so now leave at 5.30 a.m. Getting up at 4.30 has its advantages, and last week we couldn’t go out for a couple of days due to rain. I got up on the third morning to check whether it […]
For two days this week we were confined to the lodge and grounds within the electric fence so we had a wander round and attempted macro photography. I don’t have a dedicated macro lens, just a setting on my camera, so I can’t fill my frame with an ant. Here are my shots though.
I can’t quite believe that I’ve been here four weeks now – the time has flown by and I feel as if I’ve hardly had a moment to breath. My working day starts at 5.30 most days, and finishes at 6.30 at dinnertime, or 10.00 if we have a night drive once a week. I had a one-week handover with […]
We’ve heard spectacular claps of thunder in the middle of the night which have made us nearly jump out of our skins, and then stayed cosily tucked up in bed listening to the rain hammering on the thatched roofs of our cabins. Other nocturnal noises have included the whoop whoop of hyenas outside the boundary fence, the throaty croak of […]
Whilst here, the volunteers have the option to go on various trips at weekends. A couple of weekends ago I was on the rota to go to St. Lucia with them in order to be their contact person and organiser whilst there. I have been there just once before, (last November, whilst I was a volunteer myself,) so apparently that […]
The golden hour’ is the term photographers use to describe the beautiful light we have when the sun is low in the sky. I’ve only ever made use of it when photographing weddings in the summer, that time in the evening when the sun casts a golden glow over everything and everybody, and we can take gorgeous photos of the […]
One of my duties here as photography volunteer coordinator is to produce a monthly newsletter. All the coordinators contribute, as do some of the volunteers. I ‘just’ have to put it together. I’d seen previous newsletters and was determined to produce something more contemporary and fresh – it only took a day and a half!! For anyone interested in what […]
