About this series
Wild is Life is a collection of images of animals and plants that I encountered in national parks and other natural areas.
African penguins at Boulders Beach in Cape Town, South Africa.
African penguins at Boulders Beach in Cape Town, South Africa.
African penguins at Boulders Beach in Cape Town, South Africa.
A young female lion in the Balule Game Reserve in South Africa.
A young male lion in the Balule Game Reserve in South Africa.
A young female lion in the Balule Game Reserve in South Africa.
A young male lion in the Balule Game Reserve in South Africa.
Two young lions walk underneath the morning sun in the Balule Game Reserve in South Africa.
A young male lion passes a female in the early morning at only a stone throw distance to our camp in the Balule Game Reserve in South Africa.
One of them suddenly disliked my presence and charged straight ahead. As I was right at the edge of the camp, I froze and put all my faith in two electrical wires located in between the elephant and me. At several meters away, the charge halted and two giant ears waved forward.
An African elephant approaches the camp underneath a setting African sun in the Balule Game Reserve in South Africa.
An African elephants peeks through the bush in Mopani, South Africa.
A twig snout bug (or Zanna) passed us by In the Balule Game Reserve in South Africa.
An African elephant takes a look inside our car in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
A close-up of a tusk of an African elephant that is walking right past our car in Krugrer National Park, South Africa.
The southern yellow-billed hornbill, or Zazu’s distant cousin from the Lion King (he’s got a red bill).
A zebra faces the opposite way in a dazzle of multiple zebras in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
An acacia tree at sunset near the Blyde River Canyon in South Africa.
The southern part of the Blyde River Canyon from above at sunset.
A grey go-away bird poses on a branch at Kapama Game Reserve in South Africa.
Lions are extremely social creatures and are witnessed playing and cuddling in the later afternoon at Kapama Game Reserve in South Africa.
A pair of young lions play in the late afternoon at Kapama Game Reserve, South Africa.
An African elephant approaches the camp at Balule Nature Reserve in South Africa.
A Himalayan mountain goat, or tahr, looks out over Camps Bay at the Diving Board in Table Mountain, Cape town, South Africa.
White storks on their nests alongside the striking coast near Praia do Carvalhal at the west coast of Portugal.
White storks on their nests alongside the striking coast near Praia do Carvalhal at the west coast of Portugal.
A close-up of a Sri Lankan elephant in Kumana National Park, Sri Lanka.
A wild pig rubs his or her tummy over a branch in Kumana National Park, Sri Lanka.
A Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus), native to Sri Lanka, shakes egrets off his back in Kumana National Park, Sri Lanka.
Blue-tailed Bee-eaters in Kumana National Park, Sri Lanka.
Egrets on top of water buffalos in Kumana National Park, Sri Lanka.
A Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus), native to Sri Lanka, is having an early morning breakfast of lotus flowers in Kumana National Park, Sri Lanka.
A tall forest alongside the train tracks is covered in clouds.
Dead black-box eucalyptus trees rising out of the water at Lake Pamamaro in Australia.
Dead black-box eucalyptus trees rising out of the water at Lake Pamamaro in Australia.
A nest of ants at Mungo, Australia.
Grey kangaroos at Mungo, Australia.
A dead eucalyptus rises from the waters as the sun sets at Yarradda Lagoon.
Zhangjiajie in China contains thousands of jagged quartzite sandstone columns, some of which reach over 200 meters.
A silhouette of a tree in Huangshan or Yellow Mountain.
Fire flies amongst the mangroves in Bohol, the Philippines.
A male nomad dragonfly in the MacRitchie Reservoir in Singapore. They can be found in the regions of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Asia.
A Macaque in the MacRitchie Reservoir in Singapore. The population of long-tailed macaque's in Singapore reaches about 1500 and once they have reportedly used human hair to floss.
A trail of ants that seemed to travel extra fast over their very own ant highway in Cebu, Philippines.
This little sparrow built a nest inside a pipe sticking out the Sulamani Temple in Bagan, Myanmar.
A singular ant on the railing of Phousi Hill in Luang Prabang, Laos.
Water falls down the rocks at Kuang Si near Luang Prabang, Laos.
Two mating rose chafers (Cetonia Aurata) on a doronicum flower in Altaussee, Austria.
