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The Morning Zebu Market.

2/6/2019

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The hard red dirt feels almost like concrete underneath the feet. Despite the hardness, loose dust is kicked up in the air as soon as the hard ground is broken. Apart from a thin, barely visible line of clouds on the horizon, the sky is an open blue expanseless blue. Groups of men, their skin shades of chocolate, their eyes, lost under the shade of every variety of hat and cap, walk in conversation with one another. Herds of long-horned cattle, the famous Zebu of Madagascar grunt and low as they are coralled and herded into tight groups under the gaze of the elder men.


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Exploring the Island Continent - Madagascar Photographic Recce (2017)

4/4/2018

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The Alley of Baobabs, misty morning dawn trail.

Several years ago, sitting in the dry heat of Namibia sipping a beer, I asked Nick van de Wiel, my partner with Nature's Light, "What about Madagascar?"
I remember him laughing and saying something along the lines of, "Sure! You organize it, we do it”. Not for a second thinking that we would actually manage to put together a photographic trip on the odd land mass floating off the East coast of Africa. That conversation was on the tail end of our now annual Composing The Dunes workshop in Namibia. Typing this, I am sitting on a Airlink Avro plane with the ochre coloured rivers of Madagascar shimmering in the late afternoon sun far below us. Somehow we managed to put it together...


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  • Home
  • Photography Courses
    • Seminar Series
    • Mini Courses & Classes
    • Photography Mentoring
  • Photographic Workshops & Expeditions
    • 3 day Private Wildlife Photography workshop
    • 5 day Mountain Adventure - Drakensberg Mountains
    • 5 day Hunters of Light Mountain Landscape Photography - Drakensberg Mountains
    • 5 day Mountain Masterclass - Drakensberg Mountains
    • 5 day The Waves of Luphathana
    • 5 day Astrophotography - Babanango
    • 6 day Wilderness and Astrophotography Workshop- Botswana
    • 6 day Chasing Reindeer - An Ethnographic Photography Workshop
    • 9 day Wandering the Wild Coast - South Africa
    • 13 day Epic Iceland Adventure - Chasing a Midnight Sun
    • 14 day Composing the Dunes - Namibia
    • 15 day Exploring the Island Continent - Madagascar
    • 7 day Wilderness and Astrophotography - Botswana
    • The 'Where To Next' Survey
  • Blog
  • Sales
    • Leofoto
    • Leofoto Accessories
    • Leofoto L-Brackets
    • Leofoto Mini Tripod & Smartphone
    • Leofoto Monopods
    • Leofoto Quick Release Plates
    • Leofoto Ranger Tripods
    • Leofoto Leveling Ranger Tripods
    • Leofoto SOAR/PRS
    • Leofoto Summit Tripods
    • Leofoto Tripod Heads
    • Leofoto Urban Tripods
    • NiSi
    • NiSi 100mm
    • NiSi 150mm
    • NiSi M75
    • NiSi Close Up Lens Kit NC 77mm
    • NiSi Circular Filters
    • NiSi Drone Filters
    • F-Stop Questionnaire
  • About Us
    • About Nature's Light
    • Photography Instructors
    • The Workshop Experience
    • Photography Tours and Workshops Calendar
    • Contact
    • Payment - Ts & Cs
    • FAQ