The images that work best are always those that have a story to tell. Thinking about what you are trying to convey through the image will help you determine how to shoot a scene- blood and guts certainly doesn't work in most images- unless that's the point you want to...
A great photographic morning when a pride of lions pops out of the long grass to come down and drink
The iconic Okavango image of a big male lion plowing through the flooded grasslands is on every wildlife photographer's wants list, but today was not to be.
High risk, high reward. It is better to work with an animal in marginal light doing something than work with an animal in plenty of light doing nothing (my proverb)
The Okavango delta is a land of contrasts, its winter, its dry, its cool but the flood water is slowly trickling in and our lions are having to swim- great news for photography
It's not only male lions who fight to defend their territory
Female elephants are formidable protectors and this was tested to the limit when the pride of lions became very interested in her calf
The reality is that lions seldom win, but when they do they win big
Look for something different, be it color, texture or contrasty light to highlight a subject, even focus will work with the right image
One of the hardest things to find and photograph in nature is patterns, texture and repetition.