Posted in Photography, Q-and-A on Oct 26th, 2009 No Comments »
The fourth in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Ron Magill You come upon a scenic vista on the flat expanse of the Maasai Mara in Kenya. You have the shot composed in your mind, the wildlife is positioned ideally and the photo seems perfect. Perfect, that is, except for [...]
Posted in Photography, Snorkeling on Oct 6th, 2009 No Comments »
The third in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Thomas & Natalya Baechtold/Raw Perspectives Of the wide-ranging variety of subjects you could photograph on a nature tour, marine life may be the most daunting. In fact, only 10 percent of all travelers take photos underwater on snorkeling and scuba diving [...]
Posted in Photography, Q-and-A on Sep 21st, 2009 No Comments »
The second in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Martin Harvey. The subjects of Martin Harvey’s photography are as varied as the African continent itself. But the South Africa-based photographer maintains one constant in all of his shots: good composition. We caught up with the frequent WWF photography contributor in [...]
Posted in Photography, Snorkeling on Sep 19th, 2009 No Comments »
“The trip leader Ron Leidich took this photograph of me providing scale to the some of the enormous table corals that we encountered at the Mergui Archipelago. This area was off-limits to foreigners until recently and has seen little activity beyond fishing. The many small islands provide shelter and myriad current and wave conditions – [...]
Posted in Photography on Sep 16th, 2009 No Comments »
“It was moving as polar bears do: seemingly aimlessly, languorously, its head and neck occasionally swaying loosely and slowly from side to side.” Read author Kieran Mulvaney’s account of venturing onto the tundra in Churchill, Manitoba, in Canada, and watch a slideshow of polar bear images in a well-recommended feature in last week’s Washington Post [...]
Posted in Photography, Q-and-A on Aug 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
The first in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. One of the biggest shames that professional photographer Steven Morello sees time and time again on nature tours is a traveler forgetting—accidentally or intentionally—to pack a camera charger. “I’ve seen many travelers purposely not bring their battery chargers because they assumed someone else on [...]
Posted in Photography on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
“One of my favorite experiences was meeting a local family along a small tributary of the Ucayali deep inside Pacaya-Samira Reserve. It was mid-morning when we met a man in a small dugout canoe who invited us to follow him to his home just around the bend. His home consisted of several buildings standing just [...]
Posted in Photography on Jul 13th, 2009 No Comments »
“During a WWF tour to Kenya, we traveled to a village in the Maasai Mara Reserve. A group of Maasai women performed a dance to welcome us upon our arrival. They radiated such spirit! They were enthusiastic in their dancing and so happy to show us their handmade crafts and decorative clothing. I appreciated the [...]
Posted in Photography, Snorkeling on Jun 11th, 2009 No Comments »
“During our cruise through the sparsely uninhabited Mergui Archipelago, we almost always had the reefs to ourselves, sometimes passing fishing boats en route to the next snorkeling adventure. Several times we had observed the activities of the Moken people from a distance. “These nomadic people, also referred to as sea gypsies, spend most of their [...]