Grant Atkinson is a guide, wildlife photographer and writer. He spent twelve years guiding in Botswana, and this country and its wildlife will always hold a special attraction for him. Grant enjoys all forms of nature photography, from birds and mammals to landscapes and macro. He firmly believes that knowing your subject’s behaviour leads to good results.
On photographic safaris Grant always tries to make use of his experience of animal behaviour to allow him to anticipate events before they actually happen.

"Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. " - Don McCullin

Based in South Africa, Andrew is a passionate and creative photographer with a wide range of diverse images and blog ramblings. His drive and passion for sharing all things photographed is why he strives to inspire and help people find their "little voice" and understand #creatingphotography.

Ona grew up around the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana. Upon completing school, he joined the Botswana Predator Conservation Programme as a research assistant. He then started his guiding career with &Beyond Botswana in the Okavango Delta. In 2010 he joined Wilderness Safaris when he couldn’t resist the urge to work in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. It was here that he bought his first camera and an interest in wildlife photography began. His work is now regularly published in Peolwane, the Air Botswana in-flight magazine. He is an active contributor to Discover Botswana, an annual publication by the Botswana Tourism Board, showcasing Botswana’s natural heritage.

Shem Compion is a naturalist and professional wildlife photographer working throughout Africa. His passion for natural areas and photography has led to a life of travel and creating environmental awareness through his photography. Shem is known for his creative representation of common subjects- leading to a diverse range of subject matter. His images have won national and international awards and his work is published worldwide. He has published five books. Shem owns and runs Africa's largest specialised photo safari company; C4 Photo Safaris which run photo safaris and workshops.

Craig has worked for the last 25 years as a professional documentary filmmaker with his brother Damon. Together they have worked in over 20 African countries and on every continent on earth. They have over 50 international awards for their work including the golden panda, the “Oscar” of natural history filmmaking. For years Craig worked and lived with Bushmen hunters and shamans, Zulu traditional healers, Dogon priests and hunter/sorcerers. He lived

Marcus is a creative macro and amateur landscape photographer.

He was born and raised on a farm in Zimbabwe and from an early age developed an interest in nature, particularly butterflies and insects. It was in 2014 that he was inspired to pursue photography more seriously.

His macro photography is primarily of insects, spiders and snails. He makes use of a variety of lenses, lighting set ups, props and mini sets (both in the field and indoors) to bring his creative vision to life.

Lets has been a safari guide in Botswana for over 8 years and he enthuses how it has been a great journey filled with undying passion for nature and photography in all the places he has worked and visited. Lets claims his guiding experience has been instrumental in improving his understanding of animal behavior and hence helping him in better anticipation and patience to get in the right place to take the best photos. Lets has published articles in Discover Botswana and Peolwane Magazine with supporting photographs and was a finalist twice in the Botswana Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

A natural raconteur and entertainer, Clement Lawrence joined Wilderness Safaris in 2006 and is currently the General Manager of the iconic Hoanib Skeleton Coast Camp.

Clement began his ecotourism career as a guide and despite being camp bound in his day-to-day work, takes every opportunity to escape to the spectacular desert environment of the surrounding Kaokoveld and Skeleton Coast where he has long attempted to capture the nuance of his habitat on film.

Michael Lorentz is passionate about wildlife, the wilderness and elephants in particular. His bush career started in 1985 in the Timbavati Game Reserve, followed by 15 years guiding in the Okavango Delta, several of them as Managing Director of Elephant Back Safaris and Abu Camp.

In 2000 Michael moved back to South Africa, founding Passage to Africa. He still leads privately guided safaris across Africa and was named to the Travel and Leisure 2014 A-List of Top Travel Agents. Michael strives to provide his guests with a real insight into the intricacies of Africa’s wildlife, people, places and experiences. In the words of one guest “Michael does not take you for a walk in the African bush; rather he takes you for a walk with it. Until you have experienced the difference, you won’t know what I am talking about.”

Over the last 3 years Michael has been actively involved in helping African Parks establish Camp

Hougaard has established himself as a name that is synonymous with landscape photography in South Africa. He has one of the most comprehensive and diverse collections of Southern African scenery, but he is quickly expanding his gallery beyond the shores of Africa. His work shows his understanding for creating images that communicate the essence of a location, instead of just being a pretty picture. He wants his photos to remove the viewer from their present location and transport them to the scene so they can feel the breeze and see the golden light of the setting sun on their skin.

My passion for photography began while studying Design in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2008 I moved to Botswana and started a new life working in wildlife conservation and pursuing my photography. Over time the more I began to understand the challenges of wildlife conservation and the reality of it, the more I wanted to capture and share these challenges with people. I also realised the importance of tourism in protecting and supporting the conservation of the remaining wilderness For me the most important rule while taking photographs in the wilderness is to respect the animals, their habitat and their limits, always trying to capture a real synchronicity with the natural world, without interfering with the environment. Today my work focuses on Fine Art. I hope to inspire people to look at nature and wildlife with love, care and most importantly respect.
www.janainamatarazzo.com

With an innate love for travel and wildlife, Ruth's passion for photography was bound to work hand in hand. Her photographic career began in the form of Fine Art at Rhodes University and has since adapted and taken on new forms during her many travels over the past few years. Naturally, moving to the bush her subject focus shifted to the wildlife around her. Having spent time working in the Sabi Sands, Kalahari and Botswana, Ruth has been able to learn about Africa’s wildlife and all its beauty through the practise of photography.
Now based at Mashatu Game Reserve, Ruth has the privilege of viewing wildlife from the unique perspective of underground hides, and to share her everyday interactions with a greater audience with the aim to spread the vital message of conservation and of course her simple love for nature.

For 32 years, Obie Oberholzer has been travelling the dusty roads of Africa. Once, after his country’s independence in 1994, he’d even travelled all the way up to Cairo from Cape Town. That trip took him 9 months. If asked about his own photography, he would merely shrug, smile and then tell you about some funny incident that happened along the road. With love and enthusiasm he has followed his travel dreams across these Happysadlands, reflecting people and places along the way.

I was one of those blokes who started out in photography with a camera I borrowed from my dad while I was still at school. At that time it was black and white film and lots of darkroom work - real magic! I studied plant ecology, worked in forestry research at the CSIR and attained a PhD- but then gravitated back to my passion for photography. It was obvious that the advent of the internet presented a heap of new opportunities. I was fortunate enough to meet and collaborate with the guys who started Africam, and we became one of the first specialist African online Image Libraries in the late 90's – originally called Wildfocus, and later AfriPics.

Currently Chief Marketing Officer at Wilderness Safaris, Chris Roche started out in the ecotourism industry as a guide in the mid-1990s. For the past decade he has been employed by Wilderness Safaris in various guises ranging from communications to conservation to marketing.
He has travelled widely in Africa (more than 20 countries in west, central, east and southern Africa and its associated islands), and is passionate about the role the ecotourism industry plays in conservation.

As one of only a handful of aerial photographers in the world, husband and wife team Jan and Jay Roode show an undeniable passion for capturing nature’s magnificence from above.

Having flown over 50 000 nautical miles over the extraordinary and geographically diverse landscapes of Southern Africa, the Skyhawk collection of images is a result of an epic search in a light aircraft to capture images of life sewn into the tapestry of unimaginable landscape.

Karin Schermbrucker spends most of her time traveling the African continent, committed to take photographs that change people’s perspectives and open eyes.

After many years she remains passionate about taking pictures that reflect something bigger than herself. “I see my camera as a bridge, which has the capacity to cross the divide that sometimes exists between people of different cultures, classes, languages and beliefs and I have had my eyes opened in the process…”

icky Silberbauer grew up in Cape Town, graduating from the Academy of Design and Photography in Stellenbosch where she specialized in wildlife photography. Following this Nicky moved to the bush where for eight years she worked as a full-time guide, operating from some of South Africa’s première lodges including Singita, Tswalu and AndBeyond.

Life in the bush furnished Nicky not only with her field guide qualifications but also a knowledge and understanding of the wildlife she loves to photograph. To her, Nicky’s photography and guiding is much more than a career; it is a way for her to channel her passion for Africa and to share the beauty of Africa’s wild places with others, hopefully contributing to the continued existence of those wild lands.

Graham Springer is a South African photographic artist whose work focuses predominantly on the African wilderness and wildlife. He has garnered critical acclaim for his distinctive style and uniquely creative take on the wildlife genre. He photographs for the exclusive purpose of producing large format prints and has held several solo exhibitions. His work, printed in his private studio is sold world-wide.

Born in Zimbabwe in 1976, Springer began photographing at the age of 12 when his parents gave him an old SLR camera to use. After graduating from the University of Cape Town, he began working as a field guide in Limpopo province, South Africa. Moving to Botswana in 2002, he managed remote safari camps and guided horseback safaris in the Okavango Delta before working in wildlife documentary film production for nine years. During this time he worked extensively on producing images for his first collection of prints. His first book, “Homage”, published in 2015, showcases a selection from this collection of images.

Based in Cape Town, Graham now works solely as a photographic artist, travelling into Africa and generating images for new collections of work.

Steve began his career as a specialist photographic guide in Botswana 16 years ago. After publishing his first book Earth Ark – A Photographic Safari through northern Botswana, he went on to co-write Wildlife Photography in Botswana – A practical guide with James Gifford. Steve’s next major accomplishment was in 2012 when he co-founded Cameras for Conservation, an organization showcasing photographers and artists in Botswana as well as promoting conservation of the wilderness.

Guts has been running guided photo safaris around Southern Africa since 2002 and in that time has managed to cover a staggering 1.2 million kilometers in his incredibly trustworthy yellow Land Rover. That experience combined with a degree in Adventure Tourism and a stint in the South African army’s elite photo reconnaissance unit has positioned Guts as one of the most sought after guides of his generation. Guts is based in Kasane in the Chobe region on a permanent basis and is responsible for all operations and guiding activities for Pangolin Photo Safaris.

South Africa based photographer, Heinrich van den Berg specializes in nature, environmental and travel photography. He has spent many years in the field, capturing images of African wildlife and the natural beauty of the continent. He has won numerous international photographic awards and his photographs grace numerous books, calendars, magazine portfolios and photographic products worldwide.

Passion, energy and enthusiasm is one thing but apart from that I feel that everything I have done in my life has prepared me to create incredible wildlife and photography experiences for people I travel with.

A unique combination of qualifications ranging from a degree in Sport Psychology to FGASA trails guide and photographic diplomas combined with work experiences which includes lodge management, field guiding, fitness education and competitive international gymnastics means that you are in for a fun, educational and once of a lifetime experience when we head out into the field together or when you attend a presentation or course.

Travel, photography and teaching. These are my passions and what I would like to share with you!

Riaan is the Art Director of Wild magazine, amongst others, and has spent the past 10 years designing and directing various local and international customer and consumer magazines. He was art director for Weg/Go! before moving to Wild five years ago. He has considered millions of images for publication and has the difficult task of selecting the few that will make it into each issue. He’s passionate about print and loves crafting pages that tell interesting stories. A keen photographer himself, he uses a trustworthy 10.3 megapixel Sony R1.

After completing his National diploma in Nature Conservation at the Tshwane University of Technology and research at in the Natal midlands, Timbavati Private Nature Reserve and the National Zoological gardens of South Africa, Wim studied the secretive brown hyaena for his Nature Conservation degree. Subsequently working as a field guide at Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve, Wim was further promoted as Head ranger at Earth Lodge. During his time at Sabi Sabi Wim discovered a true passion for

I fell in love with underwater photography because of its essence, difficulty and pure rawness, which allows the photographer the freedom to paint his canvas and create fine art that tells a story. Underwater photography is most probably the truest form of wildlife photography that any photographer can experience. The underwater photographer is extremely limited by equipment and fully exposed to nature and its elements in every conceivable way, no hides, 4×4’s, barriers etc. The studio is a moving, changing and all encompassing live canvas. It has texture and substance that can be touched and felt, very unlike air. The medium constantly changing and it has many limitations e.g. time, movement, density, light etc. making it a very demanding, yet stimulating to work in, taking it to the next level is a constant goal and I love the challenge to “get the shot”!
http://allenwalkerphotography.com

Over the course of his 30-year career, photographer Art Wolfe has worked on every continent and in hundreds of locations. His stunning images interpret and record the world's fast disappearing wildlife, landscapes and native cultures, and are a lasting inspiration to those who seek to preserve them all. Wolfe’s photographs are recognized throughout the world for their mastery of color, composition and perspective.By employing artistic and journalistic styles, he documents his subjects and educates the

Based on Malilangwe Reserve in Zimbabwe, Kim Wolhuter lives out his passion and is driven
by filmmaking and photography to create an international awareness on wildlife and
conservation issues. Kim was born into a family of wildlife rangers: both his father and
grandfather worked in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. His Grandfather became a legend
after killing an adult male lion with his knife after it dragged him from his horse.