Rear focusing or back button focusing secrets

Rear focusing or back button focusing can come out very handy in wildlife photography! What is rear focusing??? This technique is not very well known, yet it is an effective way to combine ONE SHOT focus mode with AI SERVO mode. One presses the AF-ON or * back button with the thumb from the back

Two lions sleeping together in Savuti, Chobe National Park

How do you deal with a subject partly in the shade? See below two male lions sleeping side by side in Savuti, Chobe National Park. Those two male lions are peacefully taking a nap together under the shade of a Mopane tree. The big issue with subjects partially shaded (like under a tree!) is that

Botswana & Victoria Falls Instructional Photography Tour – Sep 2014

Join me as your tour leader to an amazing photography workshop in Botswana and the Victoria Falls! This exclusive African safari will take you from the Okavango Delta, to the Chobe National Park and to the mighty Victoria Falls. In September 2014, accompany me and a small group to the trip that made me fall

Flightless Cormorant’s courtship

The photograph below is a pair of Flightless Cormorant going through their courtship ritual. This pair of Flightless Cormorants is swimming around each other in the cold water current of Fernandina Island, in the Galapagos Islands. What are they doing? Courting each other! 🙂 I was lucky to witness this superb display of chase and

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