There is just something about the Amboseli landscape that really appeals to me for monochrome images. The starkness of many of the areas, the elephants towering over the flat, seemingly endless plains.
Here is a selection of images from this beautiful place.
I hope you enjoy, and have a lovely day.
As dusk approached, this lioness rounded up her cubs and was on the move.Tender greetings.Egrets alongside an elephant, waiting for any insects the elephant stirs up.Elephants crossing the marsh, with the hills in the background.A zebra in the marsh along with herons, egrets and ibis.Wildebeest marching onwards.A lone wildebeest rests on the Amboseli plains.
I’ve gotten these posts done ahead of time, as today I am heading back to Africa for another amazing adventure. I am so looking forward to being out in nature, being close to elephants, and frankly, being warm (the winter has dragged on and spring has been slow to start).
I thought I would share a few of my artistic impression images, the ones that I edit to look like paintings or that end up a bit over the top.
I was so fortunate to spend time with large herds of elephants both in Amboseli, and in the Masai Mara. This photo is from the Mara, where a large herd was passing through the conservancy. We spent about an hour surrounded by elephants as they went about their day.
A 7 shot stitched panorama of just a small portion of the elephant herd passing through Ol Kinyei Conservancy in Kenya.
Heads up, soon I’ll be off travelling, and while I will do my best to get my regular posts scheduled in advance, I might not be so speedy with replying to comments. As always, if you are on either Instagram or Facebook, you can catch me over there as well. I do try to make sure the photos I post to Instagram are different from what I share on the blog, and that is where I will posting some shots from the road. Links are always in the About Me section, but for convenience: @jensawicky and @jennifersawickyphotography.
It’s always nice to look at things from a different perspective. I have loads of beautiful colour photos from this sunrise photo stop, and wanted to see how it felt in black and white.
Sunrise over the Masai Mara. Kenya, September 2016.
The WordPress post prompt for this week is “It IS easy being green” and when I saw that, I immediately thought of Uganda. Many of the places I visited in Uganda were amazingly lush forested areas, with varying tones of green as far as the eye could see.
I hope you enjoy my selection of green images 🙂
A hamerkop fishing at the edge of the Kazinga Channel. If I had to guess, I’d say it caught a tilapia.A black and white colobus monkey eyes us from the treetops. My wonderful guide JP spotted this beauty while driving between Ishasha Wilderness Camp and the Mweya Lodge, overlooking the Kazinga Channel.
One of the pathways through the Kibale Forest, where I searched for chimpanzees.A young chimpanzee in the treetops, munching on the tiny fruits that were in abundance on that particular tree variety. Photographing the chimpanzees was even more challenging than the gorillas, and I came away with only a few shots I could use, but memories that will last a lifetime.A rather sizeable monitor lizard, steps from my tent door at the Ishasha Wilderness Camp. When I showed this photo to others in my group at lunch, one woman commented she was very glad it had not been outside her tent.A beautiful vista while heading into the Bwindi region. Terraced fields growing tea, coffee, bananas and an assortment of other fruits and vegetables.A L’hoests monkey seen from the deck at Buhoma Lodge in Bwindi. These monkeys were plentiful in the village, and gorged themselves on the avocados growing on the property.My first day in Bwindi, I took a village tour and we took a walk into the hills to visit a Batwa village (a pygmy community). I snapped this shot of the community fields below and plots up the opposite hillside… but mostly I think I was stopped to catch my breath as the walk was very steep and our guide kept a fairly vigorous pace!And last, but certainly not least, a gorilla sleeping amongst the leaves, in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
