South Africa – Page 29 – Jennifer Sawicky Photography

April 25, 2018April 22, 2018

2018-04-25: Wordless Wednesday

April 22, 2018

2018-04-22: Wide Angles – Stitched Panoramas

I had planned to put together my GoPro clips from Kenya this week, but time slipped away from me, so I have had to put that off until next week. Instead, I am sharing some of the stitched panorama images I have created over several trips.

_DSC2245-Edit — The landscape is rather unremarkable, but I saw this lone impala running and took some shots hoping I could create something like this. Botswana, 2015.

20170511-DSC_4199 Pano copy — A beautiful sunset to accompany a sundowner drinks stop on Phinda. South Africa, May 2017.

DSC_0226-Edit-Edit — The vast skies of the Masai Mara.

DSC_8816-Edit — A group of giraffes amongst the fever trees. Ol Kinyei Conservancy, Kenya.

mara sunrise pano — Sunrise over the Masai Mara. Kenya, 2016.

April 16, 2018April 15, 2018

2018-04-16: Monochrome Monday

I’m starting the week off with an adorable baby elephant that I had the pleasure of spending part of my last morning on safari with. It never hurts to start the week with something sweet 🙂

Wishing you all a fantastic week ahead.

April 10, 2018April 8, 2018

2018-04-10: WPC – Smile

The photo prompt of the week is smile; either an image of a smile, or something that makes you smile. Since baby animals are a universal crowd pleaser, here are a fewer images of youngsters that have made me smile.

I hope you enjoy!

20170512-DSC_4861 — A trio of cheetah cubs braving a late afternoon windstorm. Their mother was nearby, definitely ill at ease because of the weather.

20170514-DSC_5619 — Looks at the big full bellies of these lion cubs. They were going back and forth between the females, greeting each with affection.

20170516-DSC_7766 — A pair of leopard cubs playing amongst the fallen branches in a ravine. These two were all over the place; there Mom definitely had her work cut out for her.

20170516-DSC_6755 copy — The tiniest lion cubs I have had the privilege of seeing. Their Mom had brought down a giraffe calf, but these two were more interested in playing than feeding. They were under 3 weeks old.

20170516-DSC_7263 — An elephant calf having a go at the balance beam 🙂 He came pretty close to ending up in a heap on the ground, but recovered from it well.

20170517-DSC_8340 — I don’t think I have ever seen anyone smiling as much as our ranger when we were at this sighting. To say he was thrilled is a complete understatement. A dream come true, once in a lifetime moment on safari.

20170517-DSC_8560 copy — This is where mama leopard stashed her two youngsters. The hollowed log didn’t make for the best photo opportunities, but it did make for a very safe spot for these leopard cubs to stay hidden and out of danger.

WPC: Smile

April 3, 2018April 1, 2018

2018-04-03: WPC Rise/Set

The photo challenge topic of the week is sunrise and sunset. Here is one of each from my travels in Southern Africa.

20170517-DSC_8210 copy — Sunrise on my last dat of safari. May, 2017.

20170505-DSC_2376 copy — A flock of red-billed quelea searching for a spot to roost as night falls over the Okavango Delta. May, 2017

WPC: Rise/Set

April 2, 2018April 1, 2018

2018-04-02: Monochrome Monday

Does this bring back memories of childhood for anyone else? Of the times when your sibling was being a complete jerk and Mom looked on and told you to sort it out for yourselves??? 🙂

Happy Monday Everyone!

Got your tail! A pair of leopard cubs play under the watchful gaze of their Mom. Londolozi, May 2017.

March 27, 2018March 25, 2018

2018-03-27: WPC Favourite Place

The topic this week and last are very similar for me. Last week, I told you that I’d rather be on safari and this week I’m going to tell you that my favourite place is being amongst the elephants in the African bush. I must admit, I don’t really like the concept of a favourite place per se, because it feels like it discounts so many amazing experiences over the years. But, I have often said if I could only limit myself to traveling to one place the rest of my life (and even so far as if I had to choose only one animal to spend the rest of my days with) it would be in Africa amongst the elephants.

There is just something about being in the proximity of elephants, feeling their rumbles, listening to their calls, watching them interact and go about their days that fills me with such peace and joy.

I hope you enjoy my selection of images this week.

20170501-DSC_1512 — Elephants playing in the Boteti River in Botswana.

20170503-DSC_1904 — A large bull elephant at Nxai Pan in Botswana.

20170511-DSC_4047 — A pair of bull elephants at a small waterhole on Phinda Game Reserve in South Africa.

20170516-DSC_7210 — An elephant family drinking at a broken water pipe on Londolozi in South Africa.

20170505-DSC_2454 — Pushing on the tree to shake down fruits in the Okavango Delta.

20170512-P1030205 — Part of a larger herd that I spent time with one morning on Phinda Game Reserve.

A desert adapted elephant seen near the Skeleton Coast in Namibia.

WPC: Favourite Place

March 25, 2018March 24, 2018

2018-03-25: Multiple Exposure Project

I had a completely different image ready to go, but something about it just wasn’t sitting right with me. So I started scrolling through my photo catalogue, and came across the series of images I took of a pride of lions that had treed a leopard, seen during my safari in 2015. That sparked my creativity in a whole new direction.

I wish I would have thought of creating a composite image like this when I was originally editing the series and creating a blog post about it. I think this image captures the essence of the sighting in a way the individual images were unable to. If you didn’t catch the story of the lions versus a leopard the first time around, you can fid it here. There was definitely a lot going on that morning!

I hope you enjoy this last instalment of my multiple exposure project. Next month, on to something new.