There seems to be much chatter about whether to hide or seek on safari, and both can be considered controversial as most things are subjective. However, like many situations, one’s opinion often changes after they have experienced something they had a preconceived notion about from other people’s shared experiences. It seems fitting to be writing… Read more »
The Omo Valley has an extremely special place in my heart, as it does for almost all who have travelled there. It is the one tribal region where clients return with me repeatedly, even 3 or 4 times! It is hard to imagine my first trip there was nearly 15 years ago when there were… Read more »
A good photograph is the product of many things. Light, background, and our choices about it. One subject or many. Our selection of optics, perspective, motion, and use of space. How we use them leaves an impression and an emotional response. Rather than words, the photographs below show a more powerful story of a simple… Read more »
Designed for the ten-year celebration of Piper Mackay Photo Safaris, the African Wildlife Extreme safari included helicopter photography, night photography, night hide photography, low-level photography and exclusive camps. It was so over the charts in all ways I must offer it again, at least once, and I am even upping my game again and making…
Two years ago, I wrote the article, “Best Big Lens for a Wildlife Safari.” However, since most people were not traveling and with the safari high season right around the corner, I wanted to focus more on why fast glass, 2.8 or 4.0 fixed, is critically important for a successful wildlife safari. IN SIMPLE TERMS…
On March 8th at 5:PM Pacific (Los Angeles) time we will be streaming LIVE FROM KENYA! I will be sitting down with Mark Comon sharing images as we discuss my journey in photography; from the early days, challenges, lessons, successes, and my latest chapter – living in Kenya and starting a Kenya based safari company. We… Read more »
I am excited to be on the panel of judges again this year for the Greatest Maasai Mara Photographer of the year. The Maasai Mara is one of, if not the, top wildlife destination in the world and where I have spent a great majority of my time over the past 17 years so this… Read more »
Ascending into South Sudan is another world unto itself, arriving at the Mundari cattle camp is like using a time machine to go back a hundred years. The smoky air, the jingling bells, the subdued voices of beasts and ghostly silhouettes roaming around welcome you into this ancient world brought to reality. Africa is a… Read more »
My addiction to witnessing the great migration started with my first safari to Tanzania back in 2004. Each year, between June and October, approximately 1.5 million wildebeest, 400,000 zebras, and 200,000 gazelles migrate from Northern Tanzania through the Mara, chasing the rain and eating the tall grasses as they come from and return to the…
As nature and wildlife photographers, we are keener on climate change and the effects it has had on the natural world. As I was writing this it was raining in Kenya, mid-January, and we all had on our jackets; it is supposed to be the hot dry season. There had only been a few days…