This old bull elephant ambled towards us with a slow, deliberate purpose. When you see several tonnes of animal wandering towards your vehicle, it's a sphincter-tightening moment. He had absolutely no malice though and we spent what must have been the best part of an hour with him, happily munching leaves [...]
Here are some more images from our recent trip to the Masai Mara. We did see other wildlife, honestly! But the big cats are just so enthralling. Young brother and sister play-fighting. He looks like he has the upper hand, but the truth is otherwise! Lioness on [...]
Cheetahs are stunningly beautiful creatures. These sleek speed machines have evolved to hunt in the daytime while their larger and more powerful relatives (lions and leopards) are snoozing and overheating. However, like all big cats, they still like a good kip given half a chance. Here are some of my chilled cheetahs: [...]
A quick male cheetah to go with last night's raspberry-blowing female. This male cheetah, one of a coalition of 3 brothers, was interested in the gazelles close by. The reason for the Kenya trip was a recce for our 2013 photo / video safari, which is a collaboration [...]
The first sight of lions we got was this pride in the main Masai Mara National Park. Because it was midday, they were doing bugger all. Big cats in Africa (except cheetahs) conserve energy by doing the bare minimum most of the day, only coming alive in the evening, night [...]
Vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), Naboisho Conservancy, Masai Mara, Kenya We've just come back from a fantastic trip to Kenya to sort out next year's Hawk's Head Photography / Enlightened Media photo / video safari! Here's the first of many images. This chap was sitting contemplating life as we [...]
Yay, they played my interview on the Jonathan Miles show on BBC Radio Newcastle at the Farne Islands today: 1hr 40min and 56sec in, to be precise! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00vdw5t/Jonathan_Miles_17_07_2012/
