The plains of the Serengeti turn into nature’s largest maternity ward every year between January and March, when up to 500,000 wildebeest calves are born over a period of just two to three weeks. In February, during the peak of the calving season, as many as 8,000 calves can be born in a single day—equivalent to a […]
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Creative twist
This post is about colour. I am in between wildlife trips so I thought it would be interesting to play around with the colour in some of my wildlife images. Rather than change the colour of the subject, I wanted to see what effect it would create if I removed the background colour. Presumably, it […]
The great migration – circle of life
Every year thousands of wildebeest moving to the Ndutu-Plains in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania to give birth of their calves. In the Ndutu-Plains they find best conditions, because the grass there has special minerals that are important in the first weeks for rearing the calves. Within 3 to 4 weeks up to 500000 […]