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Zambia – Victoria Falls Slow-Mo

Forrest — Sun, 26 May 2013 16:06:25 +0000

Slow Motion of Victoria Falls shot with a Sony FS700.

Slow Motion Victoria Falls

Zimbabwe – Victoria Falls

Forrest — Sat, 25 May 2013 13:55:21 +0000

Victoria Falls sits on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe with different views of the falls form each country. I was staying in Livingston on the Zambia side of the fall, but decided to make the walk over to Zimbabwe to see what the views were like over there.

From my hotel in Zambia, it took about 30 minutes to go through immigration and walk across the bridge that separates Zambia from Zimbabwe to get to the park entrance.

But like on the Zambia side, the thick mists hide much of the falls and you could only see small sections at a time.

Entering Zimbabwe

The view from the bridge separating Zambia and Zimbabwe. Behind that wall of mist is Victoria Falls.

On the walk from Zambia to Zimbabwe I passed a group of Elphants having lunch

Victoria Falls From The Zimbabwe Side

Zambia – Victoria Falls Moonbow

Forrest — Sat, 25 May 2013 13:10:28 +0000

Normally the park at Victoria Falls closes at 6pm, but because there was a full moon, the park stayed open until midnight so that people could see the moonbow that forms over the waterfall.

Both of these photos were shot with a 2 minute long exposure.

Moonbow over Victoria Falls

Zambia – Wildlife

Forrest — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:48:08 +0000

There was quite a lot of wildlife around Victoria Falls.

Zebra

Zambia – Victoria Falls

Forrest — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:05:48 +0000

After traveling around Namibia a part of a group, I’m now on my own. First stop is three nights in Livingstone Zambia to see Victoria Falls.

Misty Victoria Falls

South Africa – Johannesburg

Forrest — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:02:37 +0000

I’m back in South Africa after flying from Namibia. Sadly it’s just the airport and a hotel again. I fly out in the morning for Livingstone Zambia to see Victoria Falls.

Namibia – Day 17 – Airport

Forrest — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:16:04 +0000

Back at the Windhoek airport where our Namibia adventure started and time to say goodbye to our incredible local guilds and drivers Jeremiah and Festus. They both had truly amazing knowledge of all the wildlife, plants and history of Namibia, plus had a superhuman ability to always be patient, cheerful and friendly with our group of picky and sometimes demanding photographers.

Thanks to Jeremy Woodhouse for putting on this tour, it was an incredible experience, and it was also really great to meet everyone else on the tour.

Festus and Jeremiah

Namibia – Day 17 – Cheetahs

Forrest — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:14:37 +0000

Our last day in Namibia started with a sunrise game drive to photograph a group of cheetahs. We had seen some cheetahs on our first afternoon at Okonjima, but they were dirty, sleepy, lazy-ass cheetahs that didn’t make for good photos. So this was another opportunity to see some cheetahs. This group turned out to be much more photogenic. After that it was a race to the airport to catch our flights back to Johannesburg.

Cheetah

Namibia – Day 16 – Leopards

Forrest — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:12:55 +0000

Today day was leopard day. We started out the morning on a game drive to try and find leopards. Many of the leopard at Okonjima have radio tracking collars and our guild was using that to help find a leopard. Even with knowing roughly where the leopard was, it took several hours to find one. But when we finally found him we were able to get really close. Then in the late afternoon we went to see a leopard that was kept in a special area because he was unable to be released back into the wild. We were able watch from a blind to see him being feed.

Leopard

Namibia – Day 15 – Okonjima

Forrest — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:24:51 +0000

Our final stop for our Namibia photo tour was two nights at the Okonjima Guest Farm, which is also home of the AfriCat Foundation that researches and rehabilitates Namibia’s wild cat population. The day we arrived at Okonjima we went on two game drives. The the first was a late afternoon/sunset drive and then after dinner some of us went on a nighttime game drive.

Giraffes