Mark A Slater - MAS Photography

Mark A Slater - MAS Photography Mark & Wendy Slater - Fine Art Photographers All images displayed here are available for purchase, either as a print or as framed art work.

Welcome to the studios of Mark A Slater Photography

Mark and Wendy Slater are Australian fine art photographers based in the beautiful twin cities of Albury Wodonga on the Murray River that forms the New South Wales and Victorian border in Australia. Mark, having been a keen photographer since he was 18 years old, has in recent years turned this hobby into a passion and has begun exhibiting his w

ork in local galleries and art exhibitions, with quite a good degree of success. Although he has a diverse portfolio of work including aerial, landscape, portraiture, travel, still life, astrophotography and fine art photography, his passions have always been in the areas of landscape and fine art photography. Wendy is only a very recent newcomer to fine art photography but has very impressive natural "eye" for photography and has already started winning awards with her work. Contact us via [email protected] for prices.

Title: A Mother’s ProtectionPhotographer: Wendy SlaterLocation: Serengeti National Park, TanzaniaThis lioness we extreme...
21/08/2024

Title: A Mother’s Protection
Photographer: Wendy Slater
Location: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

This lioness we extremely agitated by the presence of a male lion that was lying in the grass approximately 40 metres away. She kept looking in his direction and snarling. This is because males who are not part of a pride will kill all the cubs, if they manage to oust the pride’s dominate male.

Clearly the dominate male of this pride was not concerned about the rival 40 metres away as he was lying beside her and showed no interest in the other male lion at all, despite the lioness’s constant snarling and vocalisation.

Title: Just Lion AroundPhotographer: Mark SlaterLocation: Serengeti National Park, TanzaniaA small pride of 5 lions of w...
21/08/2024

Title: Just Lion Around
Photographer: Mark Slater
Location: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

A small pride of 5 lions of which 4 climbed this acacia tree after clearly having recently consumed a kill, judging by their fat bellies. The lion (Panthera leo) is native to both Africa and India. They were previously found all throughout Southern Europe but were eventually hunted to extinction by the 2nd century AD. Lions are not the “King Of The Jungle” as they inhabit grasslands, savannahs, and shrublands. Apparently, a lion's roar can be heard up to eight kilometres away.

Title: Inquisitive YouthPhotographer: Mark SlaterLocation: Queen Elizabeth National Park, UgandaComments: A young Vervet...
28/07/2024

Title: Inquisitive Youth
Photographer: Mark Slater
Location: Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

Comments: A young Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) watches us with great interest. The Vervet can be found mostly throughout Eastern and Southern Africa.

The vervet monkey eats a primarily herbivorous diet, living mostly on wild fruits, flowers, leaves, seeds, and seed pods. In agricultural areas, vervets become problem animals, as they raid bean, pea, young to***co, vegetable, fruit, and grain crops. Animal foods of their diet include grasshoppers and termites. Raids of cattle egrets and weaver bird nests have been observed where the vervets eat the eggs and chicks. They are also known to raid houses and restaurants, stealing unsecured food.

Title: A Face Only A Mother Could LoveLocation: Serengeti National Park, TanzaniaPhotographer: Wendy SlaterComments: A p...
21/07/2024

Title: A Face Only A Mother Could Love
Location: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Photographer: Wendy Slater

Comments: A pair of Lappet-faced vultures or Nubian vultures (Torgos tracheliotos). The lappet-faced vulture is the largest vulture in Africa and now one of the rarest of all vultures. At the site of a carcass, it is easily distinguished from all other scavenger birds by its large size, pink-skinned head, and massive bill. This species measures around 95–115 cm (37–45 in) in body length, with a wingspan of 2.5–2.9 m (8.2–9.5 ft).

The Lappet-faced vulture is a scavenging bird, feeding mostly from animal carcasses, which it finds by sight or by watching other vultures, due to its poor sense of smell. More so than many African vultures, they often find carrion on their own and start tearing through the skin. They are the most powerful and aggressive of the African vultures, and other vultures will usually cede a carcass to the lappet-faced vulture if it decides to assert itself. This is often beneficial to the less powerful vultures because the Lappet-face can tear through the tough hides and knotty muscles of large mammals that the others cannot pe*****te.

Title: Ever WatchfulPhotographer: Mark SlaterLocation: Hwange National Park, ZimbabweComments: This female Cheetah (Acin...
16/07/2024

Title: Ever Watchful
Photographer: Mark Slater
Location: Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

Comments: This female Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) was resting in the shade of a large bush, while surveying the surround plains.

The cheetah is capable of running at 93 to 104 km/h (58 to 65 mph); it has evolved specialized adaptations for speed, including a light build, long thin legs and a long tail. The cheetah actively hunts during the day, with peaks during dawn and dusk. It feeds on small- to medium-sized prey, mostly weighing under 40 kg (88 lb), and prefers medium-sized antelopes such as Impala, Springbok and Thomson's gazelles. The cheetah typically stalks its prey within 60–100 m (200–330 ft) before charging towards it, trips it during the chase and bites its throat to suffocate it to death.

Title: Hadada IbisPhotographer: Mark SlaterLocation: Kazinga Channel, Queen Elizabeth National Park, UgandaComments: A h...
09/07/2024

Title: Hadada Ibis
Photographer: Mark Slater
Location: Kazinga Channel, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

Comments: A hadada ibis (Bostrychia hagedash) on the banks of the Kazinga Channel. They are an ibis native to Sub-Saharan Africa. It is named for its very loud three to four note calls uttered in flight especially in the mornings and evenings when they fly out or return to their roost trees.

Hadeda feed on insects, millipedes and earthworms, using their long scimitar-like bill to probe soft soil. They also eat larger insects, such as the African king cricket, and also spiders and small lizards. These birds also feed readily on snails and often clear garden beds around residential homes. They are particularly welcomed on bowling and golf greens because they are assiduous in extracting larvae of moths and beetles that feed on the roots of the grass.

Title: InquisitivePhotographer: Mark SlaterLocation: Queen Elizabeth National Park, UgandaComments: A male Defassa Water...
03/07/2024

Title: Inquisitive
Photographer: Mark Slater
Location: Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

Comments: A male Defassa Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa) keeps a close eye on us as we navigate the northern sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park.

These antelopes are large, robust animals; males are generally about 25 percent larger than the females. They have large, rounded ears and white patches above the eyes, around the nose and mouth, and on the throat. Only the males have horns, which are prominently ringed and as long as 1 metre (40 inches). The horns are widely spaced and curve gracefully back and up. They are sometimes used with lethal results when males fight one another over territories.

They have a shaggy brown­-grey coat that emits a smelly, oily secretion thought to be for waterproofing. In East Africa, two types occur: the common waterbuck and the Defassa waterbuck, distinguished only by the white pattern on the rump. The common waterbuck has a conspicuous white ring encircling a dark rump, while the Defassa has wide white patches on either side of the rump. The Defassa is classified as “Near Threatened”.

Title: Time To HuntPhotographer: Wendy SlaterLocation: Serengeti National Park, TanzaniaComments: A female Leopard (Pant...
03/07/2024

Title: Time To Hunt
Photographer: Wendy Slater
Location: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Comments: A female Leopard (Panthera pardus) surveys her surroundings as dusk falls over the Serengeti.

The leopard is adapted to a variety of habitats ranging from rainforest to steppe, including arid and montane areas. It is an opportunistic predator, hunting mostly ungulates and primates. It relies on its spotted pattern for camouflage as it stalks and ambushes its prey, which it sometimes drags up a tree. It is a solitary animal outside the mating season and when raising cubs. Females usually give birth to a litter of 2–4 cubs once in 15–24 months. Both male and female leopards typically reach sexual maturity at the age 2–2.5 years.

Title: Variable SunbirdPhotographer: Wendy SlaterLocation: Bwindi, UgandaComments: A Variable Sunbird or yellow-bellied ...
29/06/2024

Title: Variable Sunbird
Photographer: Wendy Slater
Location: Bwindi, Uganda

Comments: A Variable Sunbird or yellow-bellied sunbird (Cinnyris venustus), feeds on a flower in the gardens of the Buhoma Community Haven Lodge.
They feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. Flight is fast and direct on their short wings. Most species can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird, but usually perch to feed most of the time.
The Variable Sunbird are common to equatorial Africa.

Title: Black DeathPhotographer: Wendy SlaterLocation: Queen Elizabeth National Park, UgandaComments: A gang of male mud ...
29/06/2024

Title: Black Death
Photographer: Wendy Slater
Location: Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

Comments: A gang of male mud caked African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) against a stormy sky, with Ugandan Kob (Kobus kob thomasi) antelope in the background.

Nicknames for the African buffalo include "Black Death" and "Widow maker." It's only true predators are humans and lions, meaning it has very little competition. It's considered the most dangerous to hunt because it will fiercely defend itself (and the herd) with strength in numbers when under attack.

They are a very robust species. Its shoulder height can range up to 1.7 m (5.6 ft) and its head-and-body length can range up 3.4 m (11.2 ft) and weigh up to 870 kg (1,918 lb)

Title: Palm-nut VulturePhotographer: Mark SlaterLocation: Queen Elizabeth National Park, UgandaComments: The Palm-nut Vu...
29/06/2024

Title: Palm-nut Vulture
Photographer: Mark Slater
Location: Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

Comments: The Palm-nut Vulture (Gypohierax angolensis) is the only predominately vegetarian vulture. It lives in western and central Africa and is about 60 cm (2.0 ft) in length and has a wingspan of 1.50 m (4.9 ft) long. It is easily identified by its white plumage and black wings, as well as it’s bare orange face with a yellow beak.

Although primarily a vegetarian, feeding mainly on the fleshy fruit-husks of the oil palm and on the palm-fruits of Raffia palms, as well as wild dates, oranges, other fruits, some grains and acacia seeds. These fruits make up over 60% of the adult bird's diet and over 90% of the juvenile bird's diet. It has also been recorded to feed on crabs (both freshwater and marine), molluscs, frogs, tadpoles, dead fish and insects.

Title: Double-toothed BarbetPhotographer: Mark SlaterLocation: Queen Elizabeth National Park, UgandaComments: The Double...
29/06/2024

Title: Double-toothed Barbet
Photographer: Mark Slater
Location: Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

Comments: The Double-toothed Barbet (Pogonornis bidentatus) is found predominately along the equator region across Africa. They feed on fruits and insects and roost communally, as all the barbets in a group, will roost in the same hole. Nests are made by excavating a tree, often rotting. Both barbets in a pair will dig out the nesting hole, and both will defend it.

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