HARVEY WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHY
Harvey Wildlife Photography Blog
| This website offers African pictures from South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya. My pictures of Africa consist mostly of wildlife photos. Click on the following links to see lion pictures, photos of giraffes, leopard images, photos of cheetahs, elephant pictures and zebra pics. If you are looking for wildlife greeting cards, click on our our greeting card gallery to find animal picture cards of big cats, African animals, bears, , wolves and other animals. To see a variety of wildlife pictures, visit our main nature photography website. Africa is a special place. The wildlife, the people, the land is so amazing and so different that you can't help but get addicted. Lions, leopards and cheetahs are amazing to watch. Elephants, monkeys and wild dogs. It is all so different than North America. Even the bush is alive with unique sounds. Watching elephants and giraffes is so captivating, it is addictive! |
A photo safari in Africa was unlike any safaris we have ever experienced. From capturing elephant photos as they push over giant trees to acquiring a lion video at night, then finding them the next morning gorging themselves on a cape buffalo carcass was just surreal. Watching cheetahs hunting impala and leopards hanging out in trees is simply breathtaking. Creating images from the raw events in the African wild as they unfold is just an amazing experience and we can't wait to go back to do it again.
Our second African photo safari was to Tanzania and Kenya during the great migration. The amount of wildlife compared to South Africa was magnified. I took twenty thousand pictures of animals on that trip...And came away with about 50 good pictures and 20 great pictures. :) We witnessed herds of wildebeest, zebra, giraffe and elephant on the open savannah rather than smaller groups throughout the bush. A less intimate view of Africa perhaps as there are more tourists and more wildlife on a larger scale.
While on an ocean safari a few years ago we met a British couple. They had just come back from photographing spirit bears north of Vancouver Island. They told me that they take a "trip of a lifetime" together every year. While I can't afford that sort of yearly expedition, I do respect their approach and meeting them has really helped me to appreciate experiences and time together over "things" that I used to be more consumed with. I can't remember their names, but I really appreciated their lesson.
Below is a lion video and two elephant videos from our South African safari. I hope you enjoy them. For more videos and slideshows from our safaris check out our slideshow page.