Well lets get started.
Before I get started with the pics, I just want to explain the 2 new icons on the right side of the blog, just below my profile.

These are QR Codes. Fancy name for a bar-code, but can contain a lot more info, like pictures, websites ext. I have made these to provide those of you that would like to get more info from me or want to have a more private chat, regarding photos or if you would like to contribute to my blog.

To use these codes, your phone or tablet/ipad need a app that can be used to scan the codes.
If you like, have a look at the following site (http://scan.me), this app is compatible for iphones as well as tables and android phones.
Now move the phone forward and back until the code is scanned. That's it

I have pleased bottle capes at each code to give more an idea of what you would see, yellow has a @ sigh on, which indicates email and the blue one would be for LinkedIn. Please let me know if you have any trouble with these codes.

Now lets get back to business, I have decided to place 2 of the same photo, so that I could show the difference in position of the subject. When I finished working on the top one, it looked OK, but to "busy"  for me, everybody has the right to there opinion. So, to many branches and twigs, which takes the attention away from the cub.

The Lions on this page is the Ottewa Females with there cubs, at about 3-4 months of age. As these cubs are younger than the Xhimungwe prides cubs, we tend to be a little more patient with them, meaning that we would give distance between them and the vehicles. If they decide to come closer, not a problem, but we don't want to get to close to them and frighten them off, it has to be on there own accord.

The cub on the left decided that it was time to hone his skills in climbing trees, starting small is a start!!!





After all the playful behavior, the cubs (8) became more relaxed with our presence and started to come out more into the open areas. With a lot of luck on my side, the 1 cub moved closer to us and I was able to get this pic, of the cub looking at us with one of the adults in the background

Hlaba Nkunzi 's cub is getting big now. Moving with mom where ever she goes. We were on the way to go follow up on Hlaba Nkunzi during the morning drive. She was seen in a area the previous night, with her cub as well as a carcass.

So we are heading strait there. As we get into the area where she was found, nothing was there, no carcass and no leopard, but Erick quickly pointed towards a tree on the northern bank of the dry riverbed. I then moved the vehicle to a better spot so we could have a better view of that leopard in the tree. On the northern bank the hole story unfolded. Hlaba Nkunzi was at be base of the tree, keeping a close eye on a Spotted Hyena, which came back for what ever remains was left of the carcass. Hlaba's cub was the leopard up the tree and had a good elevated view of the Hyena.
Not long after the Hyena left, the cub came out of the tree and disappeared with mom down the dry riverbed. 

The photo on the right is one of my favorite images that I made using Photoshop, as this image was made as I started to learn this program, it took me a bit of time to do, but very happy with the result.
As I use the program more and more, the faster and better I get, halving the time on images and doing more advance techniques, which I hope to show you on coming blog entries.

Well, that's all folks, until next time

CHEERS

"If you ask anyhing in My name, I will do it"

John 14:14