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A selection of my photographs from around the world.

26/05/2026

Green season safaris are underrated imo. They are often characterized by “low density” sightings, difficult traversal and challenging spotting, but I’d be lying if I said cats in the green wasn’t one of my favorite combos.

15/04/2025

A bird on a stick. But what a bird.

This is the exceptionally rare and illusive wild Congo Peafowl. So rare it wasn’t even known to science until 1934. After a failed Central African okapi expedition Dr James Chaplin noticed some unique but unidentifiable feathers in the local Congolese headdresses. He wouldn’t be able to identify these feathers until he found two taxidermy specimens mislabeled as Indian peacocks in a French museum. It wasn’t until 1955 that he was able to find and record living specimens in the Central African Congo rainforest.

Locals of course had known of them for generations but have since poached them into near extinction. Between the remoteness of their limited habitat range and near eradication, there are very few outsiders on the planet that have seen them.

Due to the sustained conservation efforts by Jef Dupain, the Antwerp Zoo, and Tetsuya Sakamaki’s research team, Lomako is one of the few places left on the planet where these peafowls can still be seen. We were lucky enough to hear them call most nights from camp. One morning on the way to the bonobos we found this lone male roosting on his evening perch. Not a great photo on my part but what an Incredibly special sighting.

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14/04/2025

On a misty morning deep in the heart of the Congo rainforest, in the dense wilds beyond the research camp Iyema in the conservation area of Lomako, a wild male bonobo slowly starts his day from the comfort of his well built leaf nest.

Like chimpanzees Bonobos sleep in leaf nests they construct every evening. They never reuse old nests and prefer instead to build a fresh nest every time they need to sleep. Even for short naps for a midday siesta they will build quick nests to take a snooze. An adult can make a quick nest for a nap in less than a minute. The larger evening nests are generally given more attention and time.

Arriving at the nest sight before sunrise always became a where’s Waldo of nest spotting. This was important not just for the researches but also to make sure you weren’t standing under one so you could avoid being on the receiving end of a bonobo’s morning bathroom release.

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14/04/2025

Adult male bonobos strike a pose.

Alongside chimpanzees, Bonobos are our closest living relatives sharing 98.7% of our DNA. Though they look similar to chimpanzees Bonobos are very different. One of the major differences is they live in matriarchies and known to be sexually promiscuous. They are lovers not fighters. This takes a lot of the pressure off the males as compared to the power dynamics and violence one tends to see in chimpanzee groups. What do they do with this free time? Pose for the camera of course.

11/04/2025

in the dense wilds of the Congo rainforest this adult male bonobo sits upright in his leaf nest in solitary contemplation as he gazes into the first light of the dawn sun through the dense leafy canopy.

Every morning our day started around 3am. We had just enough time to throw some porridge and hot coffee in our bellies before setting off on a 60-90 minute hike on average through the pitch black rainforest. Our mission was always the same: arrive at the last know nest site before dawn to observe and wake with the members of the family that were seen the day before. This was my favourite part of every day. It became a meditative ritual. Arriving, taking notes and then waiting patiently, quietly and introspectively in total darkness. Every morning we stood silently in this cathedral of trees while the leaf nests above slowly came to life. The bonobos rising to slowly meet the suns first rays filtering into the dark understory of the Congo rainforest. This ritual could last 5 minutes or several hours depending on their mood, location and proximity to food. No matter the duration it was always magic.

Note a sad and macabre reality of our ability to traverse the rainforest with such speed in total darkness is the lack of threat from forest elephants in nearly all of the DRC. This is to do with rampant Forrest elephant ivory poaching primarily in the 1980s that’s saw a sudden and violent decline of their population by up to 80%. There is a tiny surviving population of Forrest elephants in Lomako but not enough to pose a threat to our traversal.

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28/03/2025

Beware the tawny cat in the tawny grass. Photos by me, video by

01/01/2024

Just a picture of a lion for the new year.

19/12/2023

Mum and nugget take a walk through the marsh.

18/12/2023

A sunset dust bath and mud bath in the heart of dry season.

17/12/2023

No, nothing good came of this. As shot and some crops. **ed

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