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2013-02-23 18:05:53 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 23 +1s)

Watch this space: http://www.facebook.com/greg.dutoit?ref=tn_tnmn

2013-02-23 06:30:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-02-18 18:37:21 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 49 +1s)

I am back in Kenya and sitting in my waterhole again looking for my free ranging lion cubs. You can follow the thread and keep updated on my progress here: http://www.facebook.com/greg.dutoit?ref=tn_tnmn

2013-02-08 12:50:27 (9 comments, 23 reshares, 45 +1s)

I have some really exciting news:

 Do remember this photograph I took at the waterhole in Kenya? Well, I am going back to Kenya next week to go look for these young cubs. They will be 7 years old now and we will use their whisker patterns to identify them. A lion researcher and documentary filmmaker will be joining me on this wild adventure in Kenya's Rift Valley. So excited to look for my little cubs!

You can read the original story here:
http://www.gregdutoit.com/index.php?page=ftf_blood

2013-02-06 12:47:27 (10 comments, 11 reshares, 40 +1s)

I have just updated my blog with a migration shot, but a migration of a different kind. Has anyone seen a photo like this before? I am hoping not :-)

See the large version, properly rendered, on my blog:

http://www.gregdutoitblog.com/2013/02/bat-blizzard.html

2013-02-05 05:41:57 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

So stocked to have booked a private safari with a Nat Geo photographer to Duba Plains in the Okavango Delta and Great White Sharks - at the BEST time of year too....

2013-01-28 06:48:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

And so the week gets started by writing more captions for images. I think I spend more time writing captions than I do photographing?

2013-01-15 11:57:31 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

I have heard that once you visit the Antarctica, you will never be the same. It is a wilderness wonder and you can photograph it on this 'Classic Antarctica' photo safari (including the Falklands and South Georgia):

http://www.oryxphotography.com/tourinfo/classic-antarctica-ii-antarctica-the-falklands-and-south-georgia?crumb=Antarctica%3BView+Tours

2013-01-08 11:21:41 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 35 +1s)

Have just updated my blog. This one is for all the bushwackers, macro and nature photographers out there. Have a great year guys and read my 1st 2013 blog post here: http://www.gregdutoitblog.com/

2012-12-26 07:41:21 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

It is that dreaded time of year again when my wife insists that I count how many nights I was away on safari during the past year? As it turns out, in 2012 I was away for 152 nights (not too bad hey?) While I was doing the dreaded count, I thought I would have some fun and count how many flights I took as well: 53 flights this year over 22 different safaris! And how many images did I get for all this travel you ask? Just 6 images! You might think this is ridiculous but remember that Ansel Adams, arguably the greatest nature photographer ever, had a famous quote: "12 significant images a year is a good crop!" Now to present the facts to the missus! Damn, should have got her a better Christmas present!

2012-12-19 10:10:34 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)

After visiting the tribes in the Southern Omo, the term 'drop lip' has a whole new meaning! 

2012-12-11 04:31:37 (4 comments, 8 reshares, 24 +1s)

Ok, time to get serious. Off to the Southern Omo Valley and will be out of comms for a bit... 

2012-12-10 04:15:18 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 38 +1s)

In Gondar, 'the Camelot of Ethiopia' at the moment and just back from the beautiful Simien Mountains. Please excuse the hack attempt at landscape photography but just wanted to share the beauty of the Simiens with you all...

2012-12-05 13:16:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Back in Addis after an epic exploration of the Bale Mountains. Altitude sickness is highly overrated! Hot water highly underrated (have not showered since Sunday, just to $#@^$ cold)! Bale Mountains are a wintery wonderland and such a privilege to see the world's most endangered carnivore (Ethiopian Wolf). Time for a shower and some curry, yum yum, then off to Simien Mountains tomorrow in search of Walia Ibex...

2012-11-28 12:53:32 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 20 +1s)

I am off to Ethiopia soon and I will be gone until after Christmas. This is then my last post for 2012 and it just happens to be one of my favourite images from the year. 

See a larger version and read the story behind the shot here: 
http://www.gregdutoit.com/index.php?page=ftf_elephantxfactor

Have a blessed holiday season everyone and to all you nature photographers out there, stay safe and shoot as if tomorrow you will be stricken blind...

2012-11-28 10:03:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Just picked up my copy of Africa Geographic! Great to see a awesome pic by legendary Kim Wolhuter and a stand up portfolio from Pete Oxford not to mention some blindingly sharp work from Cheryl-Samantha Owen! Nice work Sarah Borchert and team!

2012-11-27 06:56:16 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

How about a Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater safari next year Feb to see the migration? We are staying in the finest Sanctuary Retreats accommodation! 

It is good to book now and then you do not need to be bleak when the Christmas holidays end :-) 

http://www.c4images-safaris.co.za/index.php?page=tourprofile&tour_id=21

2012-10-23 10:34:04 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

I am finally home after a wonderful 2 weeks of migration action and I have just updated my blog with an image from a totally different but equally wonderful corner of Africa. See a larger version, read the story behind the shot here:

http://www.gregdutoit.com/index.php?page=ftf_kalahari_hornbill

2012-10-03 11:55:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Just found out that the BBC Wildlife Magazine is read in print version by 268 000 people. Amongst the buzz of social media, that is still not bad for good old ink on paper hey?

2012-10-03 08:18:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Sitting in a caffeine shop working on my next 'On Assignment ' slot for the new Africa Geographic magazine...http://www.africageographic.com/magazines/africa-geographic/

2012-10-03 06:49:27 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 52 +1s)

And finally my take on the leopard kill...

2012-10-02 14:13:58 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Join me on a predator photography worksop in the future here (see youtube video on below post): http://www.gregdutoit.com/index.php?page=oryx_predators_southafrica

2012-10-02 14:08:14 (7 comments, 12 reshares, 20 +1s)

You remember a couple of days ago I mentioned a leopard taking down an impala right next to our Land Rover? Well one of the guests on my predator photographic workshop, had her GoPro running! Check it out: LeopardKill

2012-10-02 06:44:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Here is a copy of an online interview that I recently did: http://www.aveus.com/roaring_performance/2012/10/01/238/business_lessons_from_a_watering_hole_meet_greg_du_toit

2012-10-01 06:57:13 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

Back home and so good to be back! If you in the UK, check out my 12 page portfolio in the BBC Wildlife Magazine on Leopards (Oct issue). For those of you outside the UK, you can see a selection from the portfolio here: http://www.discoverwildlife.com/gallery/leopard-photo-gallery-greg-du-toit

2012-10-01 06:56:50 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

The opening page of my Leopard portfolio:

2012-10-01 06:56:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

My leopard portfolio appears in the Oct 2012 issue of the BBC Wildlife Magazine....

2012-09-29 07:30:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Just when you think it cannot get better, a leopard takes down an impala 5 meters from the Landi on our last drive and in the golden morning light...

2012-09-28 17:48:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Just finishing up after a sublime 8 days on our Southern Africa predator workshop. The bush is looking truly beautiful with Tree Wisteria and Gardenia in full bloom. Avian Migrants trickling back and African Cuckoos calling everywhere. Also heard first Meitjie today! Bush-shrikes, Crombecs and Orioles breeding sterk! Spent am on Charleston and afternoon on Marthley, not another vehicle in sight. Have even had leopards mating 5 times and photographed backlit! Manyeleti males back after a long walk about and on a dead buffalo. View from Cambell Koppies looks like a golf course. Bliss in one of Africa's largest ecosystems...Thank you to Ian Weatherburn, Marius and Martha for sharing this special experience with me. Also, thank you to Wendy Anita Weatherburn for lending Ian to us. Africa flows through my veins... http://www.gregdutoit.com/index.php?page=links

2012-09-21 04:07:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Packing cameras again and excited to be joining Ian Weatherburn on the last Botswana and South Africa predator workshop of the year. Workshops for next year almost full already so book your spot now:
http://www.gregdutoit.com/index.php?page=links

2012-09-20 14:12:13 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Just went book shopping. Which book to start reading 1st? 'The Boer War' by Pakenham, 'Memories of a Game Ranger' by Wolhuter or 'Love, Life and Elephants' by Daphne Sheldrick?

2012-09-12 08:10:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My dear wife, who has never cycled around the block, has signed up to do the 94,7km cycle race. She is doing it to raise funds for children suffering with cancer. Please donate to her cause here: http://www.givengain.com/activist/82915/projects/3364/

Every little but helps and you can donate easily and quickly online!

Thanks so much
G

2012-09-03 13:40:06 (5 comments, 4 reshares, 17 +1s)

Spring has sprung. Yay!

2012-08-29 14:33:29 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

2012-08-24 06:24:02 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 29 +1s)

2012-08-24 06:23:15 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Finally, after a few very hectic months of travel, I have updated my 'From the Field' journal with a new image. See a larger version and get the 'behind the scenes' story here:

http://www.gregdutoit.com/modules/text/manager.php?page=from_field&Pid=16&Tid=1&W=

2012-08-23 15:26:39 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Just back from Londolozi and safe to say, Africa blew me away yet again. best thing is that I am home long enough to actually unpack my toiletry bag!!!
http://www.carrieunderwoodofficial.com/us/blownawaysingle

2012-08-17 08:31:02 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

After a few days at home editing, I have started counting my caffeine intake by pots and not cups. Bets I get out into the bush again...

2012-08-17 04:36:45 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I have always heard about the 'Leopards of Londolozi' and so tomorrow I am excited to be heading down there to photograph them...

2012-08-01 04:25:39 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 23 +1s)

I promised photos of the DC-3. This 1943 beauty was famously called the Dakota in World War 2 and since then she has affectionately been known as the Puffing Dragon, Bouncing Betty and the Gooney Bird! More notoriously as the Vomit Comet! She is my mode of transport for the next week on expedition with Nat Geo...

2012-07-29 06:39:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Only two nights into the expedition and already seen lion, buff, elie, leopard, rhino, wild dog and cheetah. Where else in Africa could you do that in two nights?

2012-07-26 12:28:52 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I very excited to be heading out tomorrow on a National Geographic Expedition. We have our own private World War 11 DC3 which I will post a pic of, as soon as I see the old bird for myself! Mala Mala, Tuli, Moremi, Chobe and Vic Falls are all stops along the way on our safari. Woohooo...

2012-07-25 13:17:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Just bought some organic mexican beans from Seattle and Malcom Gladwell's Outliers. Now just to find the time in-between packing to enjoy both....

2012-07-24 08:42:08 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Only found this online interview that I did for 500 pix now...

http://500px.com/blog/94/portrait-greg-du-toit/

2012-07-24 06:41:19 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Busy looking at the logistics of my next trip whereby I will be an Expedition Manager for National Geographic Expeditions on their 'Southern Africa by Private Air' expedition. Blimey, sitting in my waterhole was easier! Wheels up on Friday!

2012-07-01 15:45:44 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

I am heading off on my South Africa and Botswana Predator Workshop tomorrow. First stop is Mashatu in Botswana's rugged Tuli Block (some pachyderm hide photography included). Then off to Mala Mala Ratray's for leopards, lions, hyenas and other big five photography! Dates full for this year but I invite you to join me next year: http://www.gregdutoit.com/index.php?page=oryx_predators_southafrica

2012-07-01 06:24:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I have been invited to host a workshop in India next year Feb and have just excepted! I am so excited! Keen to join: http://www.oryxphotography.com/tourinfo/india-tigers-wildlife-culture-1?crumb=Asia;View+Tours

2012-06-20 06:32:28 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

I have the cover of Africa Geographic this month. It is a shot that I took in the Serengeti and wanting to show the vastness of the plains, I thought what better they, than to shrink an elephant in the landscape? I found this tree and then just waited...

2012-06-19 09:42:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Finally finished my leopard portfolio at 3am this morning! Now finally, 3 years of work, is out of my hands and in the editor's...

2012-06-15 06:43:30 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

TODAY ONLY (June 15), you can download ROAR from Amazon.com for free. 
Simply follow this link to reach the digital (Kindle) edition at Amazon. No Kindle? No worries! You can download ROAR to your computer, iPad, or other e-Reader. 

http://www.amazon.com/ROAR-Strengthening-performance-predictability-ebook/dp/B007KO61TI/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2