Africa 2018

In 2018, I took advantage of an opportunity to travel to Africa. It was to be my first time traveling outside the North American continent. Good call on my part! I hooked up with a crew of like-minded adventurers/photographers and none of us had any idea of the wonders in store for us.

We met at the Hotel Intercontinental at the OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg and were quickly taken to the heart of the Soweto Township, officially the largest ghetto in the world also the birthplace of Nelson Mandela. Luckily our guides were from there because there is no way an outsider could possibly navigate the winding streets of that bustling township.

The next waypoint was on the Botswana border where we stayed for two nights at the Thakadu Lodge adjacent to the Madikwe Game Reserve. We saw lions, leopards, rhinos, zebra, and elephants in the wild. There just aren’t words.

We then drove a small caravan of Land Cruisers across the deserts of Namibia to the windswept Skeleton Coast. We stayed a few nights at the Shipwreck Lodge there and did a good bit of shooting.

It was a tug getting back to Joburg to reluctantly catch our flights home exhausted but with several thousand magical moments secure on our hard drives.

I hope you enjoy a few of mine.