SAFFAscapes

Here we go: my first photographic story after my return to blogging! In January of 2018, we headed to one of our favourite safari destinations: The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. This is where a...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2018/09/a-mothers-devotion.html

Well, hello friends. It's been a while. And by that, I mean it's been almost 18 months since my last post on here. I am sorry, I truly am. Due to personal changes in my life I had just been u...

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We are, by nature, story-tellers. I don't care what your chosen medium of expression is - a good chunk of people alive today want to tell their story in their own way. This is also true of wild...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2017/03/wildlife-storytelling-1-essence-of-beast.html

During my (relatively short, I might add) lifetime I have had the privilege of visiting the majority of South Africa’s national parks and game reserves. What a wealth of natural heritage we pos...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2017/02/south-africa-rich-in-national-parks.html

The Impala Stately and graceful…and PLENTIFUL…this third quality I listed probably contributes to its undervaluation as a wildlife sighting or photographic opportunity.  In areas like th...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2017/02/an-ode-to-impala.html

There is a kind of wildlife image that has always spoken to me deeply. If you have been following my photography for more than a month you would have noticed that I often share these kinds of ima...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2017/01/the-animalscape.html

Hello my friends! Firstly - I want to wish you a very happy and blessed 2017! It's that time of year, eh? If you follow a plethora of photographers you will no doubt see many of them put out ...

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If you've been following trends in landscape photography, then you would know what "Dead Vlei" means. If you're unfamiliar with the place, it's basically a very photogenic dried up lake near Soss...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/12/those-popular-dead-trees.html

To kick off this post, I have to apologise to the band "The Killers", whose song title made a perfect title for this photo and its resulting blog post. As you may know , we recently returned fr...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/11/take-me-to-place-where-white-boys-dance.html

For someone who feasibly lives merely a day's hard drive from the glorious expanse that is Namibia, I visit very seldom. I suppose that's the way it is - life gets in the way, other destinations ...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/10/returning-to-namibia.html

Today I bring you some more behind-the-scenes stuff from my time filming a series of short tutorial YouTube videos with Nikon Asia in Hong Kong back in 2015. You can't visit Hong Kong and not g...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/09/nikon-unveiled-understanding-metering.html

When NIKON IN SOUTH AFRICA approached me  in September 2015 to test out the Nikon D810 and the new lightweight Nikkor 400mm f2.8E FL VR lens I was relishing the opportunity - you see, I was h...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/09/wildlife-photography-with-nikon-d810.html

If you've been around decent caliber wildlife photographers for any length of time, you will no doubt have heard one of them admonish someone else to always watch their histogram. It's the fin...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/08/trust-your-histogram.html

It's 6 January 2016...early in the morning. The sun has just risen, and we spent its rising with a lioness close to the Rooiputs waterhole in the Kalahari desert, more specifically, the Kgala...

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Last year, my wife and I had an incredible privilege: we witnessed the moment a massive litter of 17 highly endangered African Wild Dog (Painted Dog) puppies came out of their den for the very fi...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/05/delight-at-dog-den.html

In my PREVIOUS POST of this series, I shared some behind-the-scenes photos and info on the video shoot I did with Nikon Asia in Hong Kong last year. The weather in Hong Kong was quite gloomy m...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/05/nikon-unveiled-benefits-of-prime-and.html

I'd rather sleep under this 5 billion star sky than in any 5 star establishment in the world... Many folks who see these images want to know how they are captured. Here is a quick run-down of t...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/04/the-5-billion-star-hotel.html

Some of you might remember that my wife and I flew out to Hong Kong last year directly after I hosted a Wild Eye safari in the Mara Triangle. The purpose of the visit was not to be divulged at th...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/03/nikon-unveiled-getting-started-with-dslr.html

Every now and again, you find yourself having a day on safari that seems hard to top. The 11th of December, 2014, was one such a day. My wife and I were on a quick safari to the Kgalagadi Trans...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/03/a-day-spent-with-lion-creche.html

It was a crisp winter's morning. Francolins were calling, announcing the unavoidable dawn that was breaking. The Land Rover engine was chugging along as we slowly crawled out of the lodge grounds...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/02/lion-man-love.html

Leopards and I have a funny relationship. I've had to exert quite some patience to obtain photos of them - like on THIS occasion in the Kruger National Park. But this post is not about a Kruge...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2016/01/7-year-leopard.html

As is customary for many photographers of all genres during this time of year, I started glancing over my portfolio of work captured during the year in hopes of posting a "best of" collection. I ...

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Again, I stand agasp at my ability to not post on my blog with proper regularity. Or rather - I realise how much this year has ran away with my time! Earlier in the year I was able to convince ...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2015/12/my-first-dabble-with-macro-lens.html

Hello everyone. It was with a shock that I realised that my last blog post was written in August! So much has happened...between hosting a Wild Eye PHOTO SAFARI in the Maasai Mara, jetting off t...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2015/11/madikwe-may-2010-part-3.html

If you have been following my work for a while you would know at least two things. 1. I love Mana Pools in Zimbabwe. 2. I love showing the bigger picture in my wildlife photos. Well, I want to...

http://blog.morkelerasmus.com/2015/08/under-winterthorns.html