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LESSONS FROM BEHIND THE LENS

Travellers on safari and wildlife filmmakers share many of the same ambitions: to seek out intimate and exciting wildlife encounters, to witness fascinating behaviour and to experience the unique atmosphere of wild Africa. From over three decades of making natural history films, these are some of the lessons we’ve learnt that we’ve also found useful for watching wildlife on safari.

PATIENCE

Filming the split second that a Nile crocodile leaps from the water to catch a drinking wildebeest is a particularly difficult challenge. Once a year, on their long migration, wildebeest approach

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