Capture the Moment!

Since 2013, I’ve published hundreds of blog posts on all aspects of photography. Some are aimed at helping photographers with their technique, settings, and equipment, but others describe my exhibitions, workshops, and adventures in Africa, Antarctica, and beyond.

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Wet and Wild!
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Wet and Wild!

I’ve just come back from a couple of weeks at Kicheche in the Masai Mara. There was so much rain that it sometimes felt like I was in a remake of Waterworld, starring Paul Goldstein!

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Tiger, Tiger...!
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Tiger, Tiger...!

Hurry up and wait. That just about sums up any tiger safari. You wait to enter the park, you wait to see a tiger and you wait for it to do something interesting!

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Paul Goldstein interview
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Paul Goldstein interview

Paul Goldstein has been a wildlife photographer and expedition guide for over 20 years, leading trips for Exodus to Svalbard, Tadoba, Kicheche and many other locations around the world.

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The trip to Kenya
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The trip to Kenya

Five kills. Five kills! That’s what I saw on my safari to the Masai Mara - not to mention half a dozen other chases and one I missed when I needed to go to the toilet...!

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Fantastic beasts and where to find them
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Fantastic beasts and where to find them

When God painted Tanzania, he did so with a very limited palette of green and brown. There's not much variety in the landscape either, and some of the grassy plains are so flat you could lie on your back and see for a hundred miles! The only relief is the occasional kopje, or rock formation, but that's more like the artist's signature on a blank canvas.

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Tigers in Tadoba
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Tigers in Tadoba

"Tigerrrrrrr!" shouted our guide, and the driver stomped on the accelerator so hard we were doing 60mph before I knew what was happening.

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