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In Kenya, you can take a boat safari to see some amazing wildlife that live on Lake Naivasha. The day we went, there were lots of hippo in the area. They can be aggressive and dangerous, so the guides usually won’t pull their boats up too close. We were making one last slow circle around a couple of sleepy hippo when this one opened its mouth and let out a big yawn. I almost missed the shot and took this just as our guide cranked up the speed on his motor to head to another part of the lake.
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Lewa safari camp. The lovely view from the path to the hide at Lewa Safari Camp, Kenya. The tree is an acacia, and the hills are looking towards Samburu National Park. Photo taken late afternoon.
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Black rhinos. A mother and baby black rhino in Lewa Conservancy, Kenya. The people at Lewa are world leaders in conservation and anti-poaching. It is my hope that my photos will somehow help in conserving wildlife and wilderness areas.I also design camouflage for anti-poaching use, see the page “Anti-poaching Camouflage� on my web site camouflagepatterns.wordpress.com, which is presently number one on Google.
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Excited elephant. After enjoying playing in the the waterhole, this elephant shakes its head in excitement. I like to try and capture special moments of behaviour when photographing wildlife. Some individuals seem to have more personality than others, such as this elephant in Lewa conservancy, Kenya.
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Baby Black rhino. A cute baby black rhino cuddles up to mum’s back legs. I am glad I got the mother’s tufted tail in the photo as well. Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya.
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Lion moving at night. Photo taken at half a second shutter speed, ISO 2000, attempting to pan with a lion’s movements in almost total darkness. Not surprisingly its blurry, but I still like the feeling it evokes of the stealthy movement of a lion stalking at night. The title is a play on the names of the two man-eating lions of Tsavo in Kenya, “the Ghost�, and “the Darkness�, which killed and ate over 30 people when the Uganda - Mombasa railway was being built in 1898. There is a film about the man-eating lions of Tsavo, starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer, which is worth seeing.
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Samburu hills. A classic African landscape, with a view of the hills in Samburu National Park, taken from Lewa Conservancy. There is a somewhat flat-topped hill to the left of the two peaks, barely visible in the haze, which is sacred to the Samburu people. In the valley below, we spotted white rhinos, elephants and buffalo.
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baby giraffe. The guide, Daniel, estimated that this baby Reticulated giraffe would only be weeks or months old. Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya.
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A beautiful reticulated giraffe in Lewa Conservancy in Kenya. I think this type of giraffe has the most geometrical and starkly contrasting pattern, and is therefore perhaps the most photogenic of the different types of giraffes.
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Daniel, tour guide extraordinaire. Daniel guided us around Lewa Conservancy. Nearly all the photos I took at Lewa were a result of his amazing skills as a guide. I have worked as a naturalist tour guide in Australia for nearly 18 years, and I would rate the guides I met in Africa as among the best of the best in the world.Thank you, Daniel, for a marvelous time at Lewa!
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White rhino. A magnificent white rhino enjoys time next to a waterhole in the Lewa Conservancy in Kenya.
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Lilac-breasted roller. One of my favorite African birds, photographed in Lewa Conservancy in early morning light.
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After struggling up a steep bank, an elephant manages to climb out of the waterhole. Lewa conservancy, Kenya.
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The Grevys zebra has thinner stripes close together and a white belly (so the stripes appear to be black on white) and is taller and slimmer than the common zebra. The Grevys zebra is the largest type of wild horse in the world, and while it is endangered, and the numbers have dropped dramatically since the seventies, they are doing well at Lewa Conservancy and Samburu National Park in Kenya.
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The Somali ostrich is a very handsome ostrich, and is different to the common ostrich, with slightly blue legs and a deep pink bill.
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Beautiful Beisa oryx, Lewa conservancy, Kenya. These antelope are similar to the Gemsbok of Southern Africa, which have bolder markings on their sides and hindquarters, and also live in semi-arid to arid habitats.
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A black rhino mother with very impressive horns. Note also the oxpecker birds in attendance. Lewa wildlife conservancy, Kenya.
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Circle of life. The Fever tree is normally found near water, but this one has survived and thrived, perhaps tapping into an underground stream. A tree which previously survived and thrived in the same spot, now lies prone beneath it, decomposing and providing nutrients to the living tree. The living tree may have grown from a seed produced by the dead tree. Acacia xanthophloeia, Lewa conservancy, Kenya.
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Hills of Africa. In the valley below, you may be able to spot buffaloes lying down in a slightly greener patch of grass on the left, and elephants along the river, while there are also white rhinos in the valley (which are not visible in this photo). The view is from Lewa Conservancy toward the hills of Samburu National Park, taken late afternoon. To me, this is a quintessential African scene.
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African architecture. A charming dividing wall, providing privacy between tents at Lewa Safari Camp in Kenya.