Race to Save Kenya’s Giant Pangolins
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by Will
1M ago
I stood on the edge of the Oloololo escarpment and looked out over the Maasai Mara. Occasionally a glint of light reflected off a distant vehicle, reminding me that the planes below teemed with safari vehicles – this, after all, is one of the most popular safari destinations on the continent. It seemed incredible that just over my shoulder, there was a large species of mammal that had gone mostly unnoticed until recently… Pangolins are bizarre creatures; covered in course scales, with a whip-like tongue for feeding on ants and termites, and the ability to curl up into a tight, armoured ball ..read more
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BeetleCam of the Future
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by Will
1y ago
Lockdown meant putting my photography projects on hold but gave me time to develop a new BeetleCam to replace the one that I’ve been using since 2013. Here’s a short preview video showing the all-new BeetleCam! More photos and information can be found here. The post BeetleCam of the Future appeared first on Will Burrard-Lucas Blog ..read more
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We Built a Waterhole
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by Will
1y ago
Over the past two years, I have spent a great deal of time at Shompole Wilderness Camp in Kenya’s Southern Rift Valley. In the relentless heat of the day, Shompole Conservancy seems like an inhospitable place. A layer of fine dust blankets everything and it is impossible to move without sending puffs of it drifting off on the breeze. It is very dry and it might appear that little wildlife could survive here. At night, however, the story is quite different… My first inkling that this was a rather special area came early on, when we spotted five species of cat, three species of hyena and a host ..read more
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TEDx Talk: What I learned while photographing wildlife
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by Will
1y ago
I recently had the honour of speaking at TEDxNoVA in Lisbon, Portugal. In my talk, I share my adventures and the lessons I have learnt in my career as a wildlife photographer. A big thank you to the TEDxNoVA team for organising a fantastic event. Without further ado, you can watch the my full talk here: The post TEDx Talk: What I learned while photographing wildlife appeared first on Will Burrard-Lucas Blog ..read more
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A Melanistic Serval Kitten in the Serengeti
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by Will
2y ago
It seems I am quite lucky when it comes to black cats. Last week I was at Asilia Namiri Plains in the Serengeti. I was aware that over the last couple of years, a rare melanistic serval cat had been seen quite regularly near to camp. But, on arrival, I was disappointed to learn that it had not been seen for a couple of months. However, I had not come to the Serengeti looking for black cats; my aim was to photograph lions for my next book project and so I resolved to focus all my attention on that instead. The lions of Namiri did not disappoint and thoughts of mini black panthers soon left my ..read more
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Starlit Black Leopard: Capturing my dream photograph
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by Will
3y ago
In early 2019, I released my first images of a black leopard in Kenya. It was not only the most stunning creature I had ever photographed, it was also the rarest by far. You can read the story of how I captured those first images in this blog post. However, the project did not end there. For a period of time, I knew where I could find an African black leopard and I was keen to make the most of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It wasn’t long before I was back in Kenya with ambitions to expand my portfolio of images. For more than a decade I have increasingly specialised in photographing wi ..read more
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Photographing Rhinos
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by Will
4y ago
As I was winding up the fieldwork for Land of Giants, I shifted focus to another of Tsavo’s majestic inhabitants: Black Rhino. Tsavo West is a one of the most ruggedly wild and beautiful landscapes I have encountered in Africa, and a fitting bastion for these ancient mammals. To photograph the rhinos, I partnered with ZSL and KWS. Tsavo West is mountainous and much of it covered in thick bush. It is perfect black rhino habitat, but a very difficult place to actually see them. I have still yet to catch a glimpse of one in daylight! Since black rhinos are mostly active at night, and often foll ..read more
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BeetleCam turns 10!
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by Will
4y ago
This month it is ten years since I finished building the first BeetleCam. At the time, I had no idea how much BeetleCam would go on to shape my career. This was the first time I married my passion for photography with my creativity in the workshop, to develop a new device that would enable me to photograph animals in new ways. BeetleCam started me down a path which led me to develop a whole host of devices, many of which have been instrumental in my photography projects over the past 10 years. My camera trap devices have even become a business in their own right via Camtraptions. I wanted ..read more
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Last photographs of the Elephant Queen
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by Will
4y ago
F_MU1 was an incredible elephant. For more than 60 years, she lived a peaceful life in a quiet corner of Tsavo in Kenya. When I first saw her I was awestruck, for she had the most amazing tusks I had ever seen. If I hadn’t looked upon her with my own eyes, I might not have believed that such an elephant could exist in our world. If there were a Queen of Elephants, it would surely have been her. These are amongst the last images captured of her. Shortly after they were taken, she died of natural causes. She had survived through periods of terrible poaching and it was a victory that her life wa ..read more
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Black Leopard: My quest to photograph the most elusive cat in Africa
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by Will
4y ago
Since childhood I have been fascinated by stories of black panthers. For me, no animal is shrouded in more mystery, no animal more elusive, and no animal more beautiful. For many years they remained the stuff of dreams and of farfetched stories told around the campfire at night. Nobody I knew had ever seen one in the wild and I never thought that I would either. But that didn’t stop me dreaming… Then, a couple of years ago, photos started emerging of a black leopard in India. It was a cat that had made its territory in the tourist area of Kabini Forest in Karnataka. The leopard was hard to see ..read more
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