Zimbabwe · October 2013 · Photo-essay
Buffalo, hippo, and a fourteen-foot crocodile.
A mixed-bag valley hunt. Two hippo, one fourteen-foot-one-inch crocodile, a dugga-boy buffalo, and a late elephant — photographed over ten days in the Zambezi tributaries.
Photo-essay in preparation — images being prepared for the local pipeline
What will be published here
The frames.
- 01 Arrival at the valley camp — orientation with the tracker team
- 02 Morning buffalo spoor — soft mud sand and a stopping wind
- 03 The fourteen-foot crocodile — a sand-bank stalk, single shot
- 04 First hippo — from the bank at dawn, the pod working a deep channel
- 05 Second hippo — a different river, a different problem
- 06 Elephant by the last light, a one-tusker marked for the record
- 07 Meat distribution at the nearest kraal — the hippo went first
- 08 The drive out — ten days, a short rain, and a long dust road home
The layout below each frame follows the same editorial treatment as the Namibia 2014 journal — large image, short honest paragraph, no inflation. Come back when the images are up, or browse the existing archive from the Namibia seasons.