It was crazy, the rain was coming down in drops the size of my head. The sky was dark and green like a bruise, and if I’d been in my home state of Michigan I would have sworn that a tornado was minutes away. The cheetah and her […]
From the first moment I learned about slow shutter speed panning last year, I can’t seem to get enough. It’s like a little dose of Christmas on your LCD. You don’t really know if you’ve got a winner until you look at your photos. When I nail it […]
The sad reality of the wild is that just because something is alive today, it doesn’t mean it will be alive tomorrow. Now you might say that’s no different from anywhere else, and technically, I suppose that’s true. But on average, if a person has a child, it’s […]
On my recent trip to the Masai Mara I was lucky enough to see two crossings. The first was pretty momentous, and starred a crocodile the width of a dinner table. As I’m sure you’ve probably guessed, he wasn’t there to cheer on the wildebeests. When we arrived […]
When I was on my first safari, I wondered, what do cheetahs eat? They’re big cats, but not half as big as a lion or a leopard. What’s large enough to keep one fed but small enough to be manageable during a hunt? My curiosity in cheetah cuisine […]
It was a bit of a homecoming when I landed on the tiny airstrip in the Mara Triangle, one year and a week after my first visit in 2013. At least that’s how it felt. I looked out over the familiar landscape and exhaled—after 20+ hours of travel […]
In about 7 hours I will be heading back to one of my favorite places on the planet, the Masai Mara in Kenya. I cannot wait. The conclusion of an intense project for work, and the death of my beloved 18 year-old kitty Satchmo, has made this escape […]
I was checking in at the Ole Sereni hotel in Nairobi when I heard the familiar sound of a South African accent behind me. I turned to find Andrew Beck grinning from ear to ear, his hand outstretched to shake mine. It was the first time I’d met […]
The air around the jeep was filled with a light saffron fog, kicked up by the small herd of elephants to the right of our vehicle. Massive bodies milled about dusting themselves with the soil to protect their delicate skin from biting insects and the sun’s harsh rays. […]
One of my favorite memories of my time in Kenya this past June was a simple picnic lunch at Lake Amboseli. Don’t let the name fool you, the water that once made up this lake dried up thousands of years ago. Today its surface is heavily veined with […]
