On June 11th 2021 the magnificent male Lion known as Scarface died in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. On July 22nd 2011, in the late afternoon fading light four young male Lions were eating a wildeebest. My first encounter with a special Lion, Scarface. When we saw him […]
0 Read MoreDespite some logistical constraints due to the ongoing pandemic, Federico Veronesi’s second book titled One Life has been released and is now available for orders from the page http://books.federicoveronesi.com. Printing of the book happened in early September in Italy. One Life features about 90 black and […]
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Being out way before sunrise means the possibility to capture great images of the pre-dawn light, which is often more special than the sunrise itself. One morning we found a small group of Ostriches climbing uphill from the river Olare Orok, silhouetting perfectly against the colorful […]
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During the two days break between trips I spent most of the time in the Rongai area looking at the female Leopard Luluka who had her cub hidden in the bushes along the river. She never took them out in those days but one evening I […]
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Upon reaching the Mara in late July we found the herds of Wildebeests spread across the Mara. Many were in the Mara Triangle, others towards the center/east of the reserve. Unfortunately, there were no herds in proximity of the Mara river. We spent a lot of […]
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After leaving my guests at the Ol Kiombo airtstrip for their afternoon flight back to Nairobi, I headed out to the Topi Plains for a short late afternoon game drive. I wanted to spend some quality time with the Lions there. As I reached there I […]
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It was great to find three different prides in our core game drive area with new litters of many tiny cubs. Closest to us was the Enkoyani pride with three females with 8 cubs between three and five months-old. We found them a couple of mornings […]
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After six amazing days in Amboseli we flew to the Masai Mara. As we got there we realized it was too early for crossing activity, but the big cats were in out in full force. On the first afternoon we immediately started searching for the biggest […]
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In my early years in the Mara I dreamed to see a Leopard carrying a cub in her mouth, such a rare and intimate moment in the life of one of Africa’s most elusive cats. No luck for me until September 2012, when a beautiful female […]
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After a long break from our latest post, due to personal reasons and extensive safari and photography work, I want to resume posting updates and images from our photographic safaris in some of Africa’s finest wildlife reserves. This past August of 2018, while on a private […]
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