Joe and Mary
Ann McDonald's
Wildlife Photography
Our Participants Portfolio
A Selection of the
BEST Images
Produced by the Photographers on our
KENYA Photo Safaris
October-December, 2008
On the final day of each of our Kenya
Safaris I collect 30-40 images
of each of our participants. Over the next very busy hours I organize
this collection of images into a slide show that reviews and showcases
the work, the adventures, and the imagery we experienced on that
trip.
Afterwards, when we return home, each participant receives
a DVD of the entire image collection from that safari, to enjoy
and to share with family and friends. As we do this, I sort the
images into groups based on topic - all the elephants are together,
the images from Samburu are grouped together, the birds are together
per park, etc., so the show is a review of the trip, not
a showcase of each person's work, which could be a source of pride
or perhaps of discomfort.
Accordingly, the images are not credited, and as I
post this wonderful portfolio, much as I'd love to credit each
photographer
whose work is shown, I don't have that data. On the plus side,
participants from any of these trips can certainly 'claim' to
family and friends that the image they enjoy the most was the
one they shot! And perhaps they did!
Finally, seeing these images certainly points out how
non-professional photographers can do outstanding work on one
of these
safaris, and may serve as motivation for other photographers out
there.
Superb starling; African Elephant and rainbow; Elephant trunk
African ground squirrel grooming, Elephants play-fighting in Samburu
An extremely rare Caracal, that also was extraordinarily tame;
Vulturine Guineafowl
Golden pipet - the butterfly bird, its flashing wings seeming
glowing; a tree-climbing lion in Nakuru
Martial Eagle with a fresh dik-dik kill; Yellow-necked Spurfowl
cackling; Little bee-eater with a bee
Lilac-breasted Roller; Crowned Cranes; Rosy Patched Bush Shrike
White-throated bee-eater; young gnu galloping; Vitelline Masked
Weaver
The start of a river crossing; the Great Migration, courting Red-billed
Hornbills
Little bee-eater returning to its nest; an Elephant herd in a
violent rainstorm; infra-red Samburu scene - neat, Judy!
Bounding baby Thompson's Gazelle; Mary at one of our private bush
dinners in Samburu; Impala and Red-billed Oxpecker
Grevy's Zebra in the rain; a curious Cheetah cub on a tire; Lesser
Flamingos
A Lesser Flamingo landing; a Common Zebra waiting for a plane;
an unlucky Common Zebra the instant before it was snatched by
a Crocodile
Cheetah cub running (left and right, duh), Masai Giraffe inspecting
an Egyptian Goose
Leopard and cub on a termite mound; Ground Hornbill with grasshopper;
flying Roller
Martial Eagle; Tawny Eagle in a dive; Masai Giraffe from a hot
air balloon
Lion pride drinking; Lions mating; male Lions playing
|Serval in mid-leap; Cheetah mother grooming cub
Cheetah about to tackle a Thompson's Gazelle; Cheetah cubs playing
Jackal pup soliciting food; Serval carrying an African Hare; Spotted
Hyena and pup at den
African Buffalo; angry Hippopotamus; leaping Impala
African Elephants from a hot air balloon; Joshua teaching the
'crane dance' to his harem of chicks
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