Elephants at Tarangire- my watercolour painting

  

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Elephants at Tarangire

My watercolour painting of Elephants at Tarangire. Based on material photographed during an unforgettable visit to this Tanzanian National Park.

Lions at Tarangire

My oil painting of a pride of lions at Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. The background including the two baobab trees is drawn from a photograph. The lions and cubs inserted from various photographs I’ve taken over the years.

She’s got her hands full!

I watched this family for a while at the Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. The cubs scragged their mother until she’d had enough; clipped one round the ears and it was after that I took this picture. She can be seen telling them, in no uncertain terms, to behave themselves!

Hug a Baobab Tree

Hugging a Baobab Tree means an embrace with often over a thousand years of history. These strange ‘upside down trees’, as they are often called because their branch structure looks more like that of tree roots, are particularly a feature of parts of Tanzania.
I photographed this very old Baobab in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. It bears the scars of generations of elephant tusks, in its bark, which is so thick as to be untroubled by the attentions of generations of elephants, unlike other indigenous trees.

Red-Billed Hornbill

This handsome fellow I photographed at Tarangire National Park, Tanzania.

Sundown at Tarangire

It was the end of a wonderful day at Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. Roosting storks against the setting sun!