Mikky visits India frequently and his portraits capture the warmth of his subjects & the culture. One of the motivations for the Portraits theme this month was his excellent “passion-project” portfolio of portraits from Jan 2025. But the majority of this month’s photos were black & white seascapes (SIO “ScrippsHenge”) & Bryce Canyon landscapes. A style of photography he hasn’t shared before so the group may be influencing his photography. I know the shared photos have inspired mine.
Mikky continues to show wonderful images from his African Safari trip earlier this year. With the thousands of photos taken, he is working his way through post-processing the wealth of wildlife images. I am envious of what he has shown so far – this month’s portfolio are a bird photographer’s dream.
Mikky traveled with UC Retirees Travel Program to Africa. Last month he shared photos of Victoria Falls and this month he shared elephant and leopard safari photos. Here are his latest wonderful animal images:
Mikky shared photos from his recent trip to Africa. These are images he took of Victoria Falls, some from a helicopter. Many of his images are panoramas because of the size of Victoria Falls. Animal photos from his African Safari will be share soon as he processes them.
Mikky shared a great collection of flower images – all of them beautiful and several exceptional.
Mikky has a future African safari trip planned so he’s been practicing with a new camera and 100-400mm zoom lens. Although mirrorless cameras and lenses are supposed to be smaller and lighter, his Nikon system will test his baggage packing efficiency. The airlines to Africa have difficult weight restrictions to meet. But when traveling on such a once-in-a-lifetime photography safari, you want to bring gear that will capture the best images. Here are his practice images, many from San Diego’s Safari Park. His male lion photos are a rarity since I’ve never seem him during my many visits.
Mikky shared a passion project portfolio of portraits that is a fantastic group of images. He did no post-processing so these are straight out of the camera.
Mikky shared some great Spring wildflower images from Anza-Borrego plus exotics from his travels to India. He’s a photo-purist that prefers to share photos straight out of camera versus many of us that like to manipulate the image in post-processing. He shared some wonderful macro flower photos.
Mikky shared some great images caught with his camera from Safari Park. He was able to get photos of some of the harder to see animals during his visits.
