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G U I D E<br />
Do it<br />
<strong>The</strong> photographer and his crew get into position beneath an acacia tree for the next dream shot<br />
KENYAN PHOTO SAFARI<br />
WHERE THE WILD<br />
THINGS ARE<br />
Gazelles giving birth, an epic elephant parade, lions peeing<br />
on you – on a photo safari, you can experience all this and<br />
more. Wildlife snapper Graeme Purdy takes us there…<br />
Ican barely breathe. A male lion<br />
has just run past our car on<br />
the opposite side to where I’m<br />
standing, and only now is the<br />
realisation starting to kick in. It’s<br />
pitch black and we’re 75m from<br />
camp on the edge of the Maasai<br />
Mara, using the headlights to view<br />
a pack of shrieking hyenas devour<br />
a dead wildebeest… at least until<br />
the lion arrives to spoil their feast.<br />
When my shaking has subsided,<br />
I lift my camera, but through the<br />
bluster of the wind I hear the thud<br />
of paws. Thrump… thrump…<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s no roar or warning growl<br />
Purdy has 16 years’ experience of safari photography in Kenya<br />
86 THE RED BULLETIN
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