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Will Burrard-Lucas { 22 images } Created 30 Apr 2021

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  • I was in Liuwa Plain for the start of the rains. I wanted to photograph the animals enjoying the rain after the long, hard dry season. I decided to take images at night, when I could use flash to highlight the raindrops. For this image I positioned a wireless off-camera flash behind the hyena to create a rim-light around the animal and highlight the raindrops. I then waited for the hyena to pass in front of the flash. It was a challenging shot to take as I had to judge the position of the hyena and manually focus my camera by the light of a very dim head-torch.
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  • Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), Liuwa Plain National Park, Zambia
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  • A meerkat and the setting African sun.
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  • I had spent many weeks in South Luangwa National Park, trying to track down this elusive pack of African wild dogs. I wanted to capture a shot that portrayed the innocence and inquisitiveness of these wonderful creatures. Eventually my perseverance was rewarded when I found them at the end of the dry season. As the pack started to move off, I positioned myself in front of them and deployed a remote wide-angle camera in their path. As they approached, the curiosity of the youngsters was aroused and they approached to investigate the clicking camera, ears focused in on it like satellite dishes. It wasn’t long before they lost interest and continued on their way, and I was left with the shot I had dreamt of.
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  • African wild dog (Lycaon pictus)  Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Photographed with BeetleCam.
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  • The Ethiopian Wolf.
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  • A male Ethiopian wolf on the Sanetti Plateau
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  • Playing in a fallen tree. Okavango Delta
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  • This prehistoric-looking bird is a shoebill. To get this shot I had to wade for two hours into the middle of the Bangweulu Swamps in Zambia. It is estimated that the global population of this species is between 5,000 and 8,000 individuals with the primary threat to their survival being habitat destructions and the illegal pet trade.
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  • Photographed with a Camtraptions camera trap. Laikipia Wilderness Camp, Kenya.
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  • Solio, Kenya
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  • Tsavo West, Kenya
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  • Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)  Liuwa Plain National Park, Zambia Photographed with BeetleCam.
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  • This is a remarkable cow elephant with tusks that reach down to the ground. Experts believe that there is no other female elephant with tusks to rival these in all of Africa. To find her we used a light aircraft to search an area twice the size of Wales. Once we spotted her from the air, I moved in on the ground to photograph her. When I saw her for the first time I simply could not believe my eyes!<br />
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As I followed her, she tore a branch from an acacia tree and spent the next hour or so eating it. At the time, Tsavo was in the midst of a severe drought and acacia was one of the only food sources still available to the elephants.<br />
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I took this photograph using a remote-control camera buggy. I had remote control over the camera settings and a live video feed from the buggy allowing me to accurately compose my images. While she was busy eating the branch, I was able to slowly creep the buggy into position. I took this image as she pushed a branch into her mouth. Later I noticed her trunk and tusks mirrored the form of a triple helix.<br />
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I photographed this elephant in August 2017. Six weeks after I photographed her, she sadly died of old age (her death was almost certainly accelerated by the drought). She was the last of her kind, a relic from a bygone era, but she successfully passed on her genes and with concerted conservation efforts, an elephant like her may appear again in the future.
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  • Tsavo, Kenya. Part of the Land of Giants project.
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  • Tsavo, Kenya. Part of the Land of Giants project.
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  • Photographed with a Camtraptions camera trap. Laikipia Wilderness Camp, Kenya.
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  • An impressive male lion feeding on a freshly killed wildebeest during the annual migration. The lion had made the kill during the night and I came across him at sunrise, whilst he was still feeding from it. The light was beautiful so I quickly deployed a remote control buggy with my camera mounted on top. The lion continued to eat and completely ignoring the buggy as I slowly manoeuvred it into position in front of him. I took this photo as he gnawed on a particularly tough part of the wildebeest’s head!
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  • Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
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  • Lion (Panthera leo)  Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Photographed with BeetleCam.
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  • An eagle-owl well camouflaged against a cliff.
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