African wildlife Photo Gallery by Doug Chaffee at pbase.com

African wildlife

Photographs from Kenya (2006) and South Africa (1998, 2005)

Welcome to Masai Mara	"The Magnificent Seven"	Elephant and acacia	Lioness	Male impala
Generations	Impala	Cheetah sentry	Thompson's gazelles	Buffalo with ox-pecker
Impala	Hartebeest	Grant's gazelle (foreground) and Thompson's gazelle	Two ways to safari	Up close and personal
Lioness	Lion	Lion in deep grass	Solitary wildebeest	Hartebeest
Hippos	Wary cheetahs	Cheetah peering into the distance	Cheetah	Elephant
Masai giraffe	Grant's gazelles	Jackal	Evening meal	Masai giraffe with ox-peckers
Topi mother and young "fencing"	Rothschild's giraffes	Zebra and impala	Elephants	Hyraxes
Eland	White rhino (buffalo and flamingos in background)	Baboons "chilling"	Baboon Alley	Young baboons
Baboons grooming	Baboon at leisure	Baboon departing	Zebra	Male waterbuck
Female waterbuck with egrets	Vervet monkey	Hyena	Vervet	Elephants
Warthog	Vultures ...	... and more vultures	Crested cranes	Kingfisher
White-bellied bustard	Marabou stork	Widowbird	Ostriches	Ground hornbill
Weaver-bird nests, Cameroon	Fish eagle	Flamingo panorama	"March of the Flamingos"	Flamingo dancers
Flamingos in flight	Flamingos	Blesbok	Blesbok herd	Greater kudu
Zebras	Curious zebras	Blesbok	Impala among trees	Sable antelope
Sable antelope	Warthogs	Impala	Sable antelope	Female greater kudu, airborne
Male greater kudu, following	Blesbok	Lioness	Zebra	Lioness
Baboon climbing tree	Elephants and acacia	"Puttin' on the Ritz"	Taking off	Ground hornbill
Big baboon	Thompson's gazelle	Impala herd	"Well, are you coming?"	Cheetahs resting
Cheetah, yawning	Cheetah, marking territory	Thompson's gazelle, impala in the background	Zebra with muddy nose	Flamingos
Broken tusk	Cheetahs' tree	Thompson's gazelle	Flamingo parade	Hartebeest
Lion	Waterbuck (mildly surprised)	Rothschild's giraffe, browsing thorn trees	Watercolor giraffes	Baboon in tree
Elephants	Elephants	Elephant with young	Ostrich chicks	Elephants
Kudu	Elephant (muddy)	"Bath" time	Cape Sugarbird on protea	Female nyala
Troika	Ostrich chick	Courting ...	... and mating	Zebras
Follow the leader	Cape glossy starling	"Everybody out of the pool ... "	Warthogs	Rothschild's giraffe
Cape glossy starling with dung beetle	Exeunt elephants	African spoonbill

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Guest		13-Dec-2011 16:42
great and excellent pics...

Guest		27-Dec-2010 19:32
Dough Excellant... beatiful pictures... great....

Guest		13-Sep-2008 00:31
great collection :) kenya and south africa is best

sara byma		30-Jul-2008 18:05
WOW! Doug, these pitures are amazing! I love "The Magnificent Seven!"

kaushik		11-Jun-2008 16:45
simply splendid .keep it up for us to enchant more.wonderful collection

sarahhhh		22-Apr-2008 16:23
these are beautiful...great photography!

Doug Chaffee		11-Oct-2007 06:26
Rocky ... sorry to hear about your experience. My 70-300 IS is not the DO version you refer to, and I have been pretty happy with its performance throughout the zoom range ... Doug

Rocky S		11-Oct-2007 02:40
You have taken some great pictures. I purchased a Canon 70-300 DO IS USM lens for a trip from Cape Town, through Namibia, Botswana and ending in Victoria Falls. I took many pictures with this lens at full zoom (300mm) and this lens is touted by Canon that it is image stablized and has sharp image quality. I spent $1200+ for this lens and every one of my 300 mm zoom images was totally worthless. They are ALL out of focus. I took many shots from 70 to 200mm and those are fine. But I purchased this lens for its ability to zoom to 300 mm and this lens is useless at that zoom range. All my images are so out of focus, I can't use any of them. This is a total waste of money and ruined my trip, and now Canon won't refund my money that I wasted on this worthless piece of crap lens. Would yo pay $1200 for a 70 - 200 mm lens, because that is all you're getting. A total, total waste of money.

SK Chew		08-Jul-2007 03:17
Doug, Absolutely breathtaking. Being keen on birding and travel photography, I have now decided to buy the Canon 70-300 IS (rather than the 70-200 IS, L) based on what I have seen from your shots. Thank you for sharing. SK Chew, Malaysia

Marie		30-Jun-2007 17:36
AWESOME pictures!!!!!

Guest		19-Feb-2007 20:30
stunning, thank for sharing

Guest		13-Feb-2007 10:41
lovely pictures, and was only loking on this site for reviews on this lens as i am going to kenya this year, and was torn between the 70-300 and the 70-200 F4 L. your pics have helped me decide, that it is the 70-300 i will be getting, as the quality looks great. i find your style very similar to Nick Brandt (only yours are colour ).

JOYIA		30-Dec-2006 01:09
Dear Daug , Wonderful shots with natural colors , well done composition , with your good angle of view.. I realy enjoyed it :) . I assume your shots are a great help to dicide this lense.. Great wild life captred ..well done..regards..JOYIA

Erika Hughes		28-Dec-2006 23:32
A truly superb gallery, Doug. I especially like the shot of the seven giraffes walking together - what a fantastic photo opportunity and a wonderful sight to see! Thank you for your comment on my Kenya gallery back in August btw :-)

M Hassan		08-Nov-2006 05:42
Excellent photos. Got your link fromm FM reviews. You have done very well capturing these magnficent wildlife and country.

John de Voogd		16-Oct-2006 17:31
Fantastic country; and you caught it well on camera. Especially love "The magnificent seven".

Karen Moen		10-Oct-2006 19:06
Wow, this is an amazing collection of wildlife images. You have captured so many species in their natural settings. Going on a photo safari has always been a dream. This gallery is almost as good. Gets my vote. Thanks for sharing your incredible images.

Doug Chaffee		10-Oct-2006 16:40
Thanks, Raphael. After viewing your Iceland gallery, I'm afraid you've given me a simlar problem: now I want to visit Iceland! Excellent work; I couldn't find a single sub-standard photograph there. I hope you will be adding more galleries in the near future.

Guest		10-Oct-2006 11:24
Amazing ! Great gallery Doug ! Just a problem: I will be obliged to go to Kenya now, lol ! P.S : the Canon 70-300 IS USM is really a great lens ;-)

henrywong		10-Oct-2006 05:28
Amazing gallery...Big Voted !

Salah El-Sadek		08-Oct-2006 06:46
Hi doug, Waht a superb gallaery you got here.. These are fine great captures of a talented photographer with excellent vision .. thanks for sharing..

Blair Howell		02-Oct-2006 07:20
fantastic Gallery Doug! I would love the oppertunity to shoot in Africa! Some day.............

Rob & Amy Lavoie		29-Sep-2006 10:04
Great gallery

M Bashir		25-Sep-2006 22:34
wow!very nice

Dan Kirchner		22-Sep-2006 17:42
Beautiful gallery with some amazing shots! Viewing these images made me miss Africa - I just came back from spending almost a year there.

Guest		11-Sep-2006 21:00
Wonderful collection of wild life..I do like that giraffe image the best of the bunch.

Guest		09-Sep-2006 12:15
Very powerful. I love your photographs! Can learn from you!!

Guest		08-Sep-2006 03:21
Simply amazing Doug ! beautiful shots, away from the civilization

Olaf Herrig		30-Aug-2006 17:28
Excellent and interesting gallery!

Rob & Amy Lavoie		22-Aug-2006 09:48
Great gallery Doug Rob http://www.pbase.com/robamy

Doug Chaffee		17-Aug-2006 05:41
Hi, Joan; I have been very happy with the performance of the Canon bodies. The 1Ds was borrowed/rented, and I found it less intuitive to use than the 350D (aka Digital Rebel XT), but it still worked well. Since these photographs were taken, I have sold the 350D and bought a 5D, which, although it has 12.8 megapixels and a full-sized sensor like the 1Ds, is much lighter than the 1Ds and handles more like the 350D. So, for me, the 5D is the best of both worlds. Apart from the relatively high price, the only complaints that resonate with me are 1) that it has no built-in flash and 2) that the continuous-shooting rate is only 3 fps. Oh, and it would be nice to have an easier way to lock up the mirror. But for my use the good points greatly outweigh those drawbacks.

joan		16-Aug-2006 20:18
do your canon bodies perform well? i am thinking to switch from a Nikon d2x (which was stolen) to an eos 5d.

Guest		12-Aug-2006 20:39
What a great gallery, my favs are the cheetahs...V

Einar Johannessen		09-Aug-2006 10:27
Beautiful pictures. Well done!

Darth Pantoof		19-Jul-2006 00:00
Fantastic shots, Doug. You have a wonderful eye. I'm thinking about the canon 70-300 (I own the 350d, like yourself) and was wondering just how much post production went into the shots. Can I expect similar quality regarding colour, contrast and sharpness from the lens shots alone? Thanks mate.

tom martin jr		18-Jul-2006 05:23
hi doug,thanks for sending the pictures.all i can say is wow about the content and the quality,looks like it was a trip of a life time.i`ll have to get the details of your trip

Lawrence Oei		14-Jul-2006 09:23
Strangely enough, I also got the "white" sky phenomenon like in some of your shots (like the zebra background). Not sure if CPL would help or not

Doug Chaffee		07-Jul-2006 06:39
Almost all were shot RAW, so there was no sharpening in the camera, only in post-processing. By the way, don't you think "everything is way oversharpened" might just be a bit of an overstatement? :)

Guest		07-Jul-2006 04:43
Good photos. But it looks like everything is way oversharpened. Are you double your sharpening? in camera and then again in post production?

George Dow		06-Jul-2006 13:52
The best nature photos I have seen in a long time. Beautifully clear and up close. Great artistic ability Doug.

Doug Chaffee		30-Jun-2006 15:05
Thanks for your comment, newbie2005. I wanted to "set and forget", and couldn't count on high light levels. Since IS doesn't help with subject motion, I wanted to keep the shutter speeds up, and as I've observed that 200 gives very acceptable noise levels (or "grain"), I was most comfortable leaving it there.

Guest		30-Jun-2006 13:42
great photos! just one question: i noticed you shot your canon 70-300 IS shots at ISO200, why? it looks to me like you had fast enough shutterspeeds to allow ISO100, is there any particular reason you chose 200? awesome photos, im loving that canon 7-300. cheers.

Janice		28-Jun-2006 02:15
Your photos are what I can only dream to attempt. Nice work. JF

Guest		27-Jun-2006 05:29
What a Super set of images Doug! It's nice to see them at a higher res. It is an amazing variety of species in a small area and a short timespan.

Sharon Miiller		26-Jun-2006 16:01
Doug, these are fabulous, brings back lots of memories.

Guest		26-Jun-2006 07:17
Cool photos; must have been an amazing trip!

Marlis		26-Jun-2006 04:51
Wow, Doug, these are magnificent!

xnir		25-Jun-2006 20:23
great collection V

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