Most of the photographs shown on these pages were taken on safari in the world-famous Masai Mara national reserve in Narok County, Kenya.

The Masai Mara is not only one of the greatest wildlife sanctuaries on earth, it is also a paradise for anyone who enjoys wildlife photography.

The Mara, as it is commonly known, is the Northern section of the wider, 40,000 square kilometre Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, which spans the Kenyan border with neighbouring Tanzania, in East Africa. It is one of the most famous wilderness areas in Africa, world-renowned for its exceptional populations of lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephant and a vast wealth of other species. It also hosts the Great Migration, one of the most spectacular natural sights that can be witnessed anywhere in the world.

The renowned German zoo director, zoologist, author and animal conservationist, Bernhard Grzimek, wrote the following quote in his 1959 book, Serengeti Shall Not Die. His words sum up the feelings and emotions that The Masai Mara invokes in me every time I visit. I hope that my photographs bring at least a tiny fraction of those feelings to anyone who views them:

“Men are easily inspired by human ideas but they forget them again just as quickly. Only nature is eternal, unless we senselessly destroy it. In fifty years' time nobody will be interested in the results of conferences which fill today’s headlines. But when, fifty years from now, a lion walks into the red dawn and roars resoundingly, it will mean something to people and quicken their hearts whether they are Bolsheviks or democrats, or whether they speak English, German, Russian or Swahili. They will stand in quiet awe as, for the first time in their lives, they watch twenty thousand zebras wander across the endless plains.”