Andrew Pye Photography

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19/02/2023

Here is an image of a few baboons and one of their babies who came down to see what were up to.

16/02/2023

Here is an image of one of many incredibly beautiful sunsets that I have experienced on Lake Kariba a few years ago.

For anyone who has been to Africa you will know that the sunsets there are mesmerising. This is partly due to the large amount of dust in the atmosphere which helps to refract light from the sun and paint the sky in those brilliant orange, reds and yellows.

04/02/2023

Here is a sequence of images that I captured of a male baboon known as Chacma Baboon which is also known as the Cape Baboon, who came down to the water to have a drink. After having a drink he sat down and gazed out over that lake, it was almost as you he was contemplating his life choices.🤣
After his time of reflection he then turned and looked at us on the house boat and yawned exposing his large canines. After deciding that we were not very interesting he went back up the the bank to the rest of his troop who were sat on some rock nearby.

The Chacma baboon is one of the largest of all the monkeys and the males can weigh up to 45kg / 100lbs. They are located mainly in Southern Africa and spend most of their day on the ground in troops that range between 20- 200 individuals. In adult males, powerful canines can grow to a length of close to 4cm, similar in size to those of a leopard, and are used in battles for dominance and defence of the troop. Crocodiles, leopards, and lions will all prey on baboons, and some painted wolves (African wild dogs) of Mana Pools famously specialize in hunting the baboon troops of the region. Leopards, in particular, have a fierce rivalry with baboons, and certain individual leopards learn to take advantage of the diurnal habits of chacma baboons to stalk them at night while they rest in trees.

31/01/2023

Here is an image of an African Fish Eagle perched in tree watching us fishing at lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. These birds are wide spread across sub-Saharan Africa and will often be found near rivers and lakes and other large bodies of fresh water. They have one of most distinctive bird sounds in Africa. The fish eagle is also Zimbabwe’s national bird. The fish eagle’s toes are coated in sharp barbs, called spiricules, which consequently help it to grasp fish and other slippery prey.

28/01/2023

Here is an image that I captured whilst on my first houseboat holiday on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. Lake Kariba is one of the worlds largest man made lakes. It took three years to build the dam wall, from 1956 to 1959 and is 128m high and 617m long. The lake itself boarders Zambia and Zimbabwe and is fed by the mighty Zambezi river that also flows over the Victoria Falls which is 400 kilometres / 250 miles upstream. The lake is 280 kilometres / 173 miles in length and 40 kilometres / 25 miles wide at its widest.

It is such a special place with some of the most amazing scenery, sunsets and wildlife that I have had the pleasure to have witnessed. Staying on a house boat is a cool way of seeing the wonders of the lake. You can choose to stay in one spot or move from spot to spot and have a different back drop every day. This is what we did, and were greeted by quite a few elephants coming down to the lake to drink and eat the lush green grass at the foot of the Matusadona Hills.

22/01/2023

After not having posting anything for quite a while and some encouragement from various people I have gone back through some of my photos from Zimbabwe. Here are some of the photos that I have taken whilst out on holiday.
Zimbabwe has its fair share of hardships with regards to day to day living but is a place that has a very special place in my heart and I have been very luck to experience a fraction of its amazingly raw beauty.

Here is an image of an African fish eagle swooping down and grabbing a small fish which we had been using as live bait whilst trying to catch tiger fish. We had discarded the small fish and were getting ready to leave our fishing spot when we noticed the fish eagle coming closer to have a look, I managed to capture this image as it was on the way for its fish takeaway.

08/07/2022

This is an image taken when I went for a walk in Oxfordshire along the Ridgeway back in November 2020. I decided to head towards East Lockinge along a path I came across this beautiful spiders web with all the condensation from the fog collecting on the web making it really stand out. It was such a foggy day and the fog didn’t lift at all the whole day. This is one of a few images that I took on this very eerie day.

27/06/2022

This is an image that I managed to get back on Christmas day in 2020. Due to everything going back into lockdown again I decided to go into Richmond Park and spend the morning in the park. I got to the park whilst the soft early morning light was just starting to illuminate everything. As I was wondering around looking for some of the Red Deer when I came across a herd of Fallow Deer which are much smaller than the Red Deer but have amazing looking antlers. I saw this Buck standing at the edge of the herd with the early morning sunrise glowing through the trees in the background and back lighting him and was very happy with this outcome.




























 











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17/04/2022

This is an image that I captured on an early morning back in may 2021. It was a very misty and calm morning and just as the sun started to burn through the low lying mist over Little Britain Lake I noticed all the drops of dew glistening in the early morning sunrise.





































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