Hilton Kotze Safari Blog

February 2010
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My first photographic for this year takes me to Sabi Sabi bush Lodge, nestled in the heat of the Sabi Sand Game reserve this is a perfect spot to start my 2010 photographic trips.

We have booked a private vehicle specially kitted for photographers and we have out specialist ranger Mike Karantonis who is excellent on animal behavior prediction( important when we need to be in the right position for action shots)

We went out for our first drive yesterday afternoon and bumbeled around the bush to see what we could find .We found lovely birds at a water hole and decided to spend some time there getting our camera settings and eyes adujsted to fast moving objects.

Phios our tracker

The next morning we headed out early to follow up on a pride of lions that were found late the previous evening, after some time of following tracks and some skillful tracking by

Mike and our Tracker Phios we found them just as the sun was breaking through the african bush. This made for some lovely photos in that golden hour time frame of good light.

One of the lionesses found a baby tortoise (life in africa is tough ) and was carrying it around , the others wanting some action too made for good action/playful shots. Later that afternoon we went out looking for the elusive leopard, and what a magnificent animal he was when we found him.