Famous Photographers - Nigel Dennis
Photographing wild animals as those in Nigel's portfolio, is a difficult field to master even while the animals are in captivity. The amazing thing about Nigel's wildlife images is the fact that they were all made in the wild! These animals were photographed in their natural habitat, in the bush of Africa. It is no small wonder why Nigel's stock images have been sought after by the likes of international publishers, including: National Geographic, Time and Barnes and Noble.
Nigel's work with animal and nature photography is definitely at the top of the photographic world.
He moved to Africa in 1985 with a view to making wildlife photography a full time profession. During his first few years in Africa he continued with his previous career in sales and marketing, but still spent about one hundred days a year photographing by utilising all his annual holidays and weekends. Eventually having built up a sufficient stock of wildlife images he launched into the rather precarious occupation of freelance wildlife photographer in 1991. Since then he and his wife Wendy camp in the African bush for up to nine months each year. Although they work mainly in South Africa they also photograph regularly in Namibia and have visited Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Madagascar.
Nigel Dennis photographs all natural subjects including reptiles, insects, flora and landscapes but tends to concentrate primarily on African animals and birds. His work is marketed by fifteen stock photo agencies and has been published world-wide in over twenty five countries. He also runs his own photo library supplying images to the publishing and advertising industries, and currently has over 40,000 transparencies on file. He does not take on commercial or advertising assignments and works primarily on book and magazine projects. Nigel Dennis has had twelve wildlife coffee table books published to date.
- Visit the Gallery to view a stunning selection African wildlife, nature and scenic images.
- Brush up your skills with our extensive wildlife Photo Tips
- Where to watch game in the Kruger National Park top photo hotspots!
- Take a tour of Sabi Sabi - one of our favourite wildlife photography destinations.
- Browse African wildlife Books by Nigel Dennis
- Wildlife photography as a career - the FAQs
- Check out the Stock Images page to view his online image database.
- Interesting links at his links page.
Although I have lived in North America for forty years, I grew up in Malmesbury in the Cape. I always remembered a nightmare spider that we had locally, that nobody ever believed me when I described it elsewhwere. We called it a vetvreter. Your website finally identified it for me; a solifugid. I don't think my arachnophobia cares that it is not really a spider.
My grandmother was born in Senekal for what it's worth. A Vermaak. I remember the parabats yelling "Vrystaat" when they jumped out the planes in Tempe back in 1965. A long time ago.
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Farrell Hope
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