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03/10/2026

So, THIS happened today!

THIS is how Blackwood Safaris does photo safaris! ❤️

03/10/2026

Did you know I now have a blog page on my website?

You’ll find short essays about my thoughts on photography, conservation, and my own experiences as a wildlife photographer.

Is there a topic you’d like me to consider? Let me know!

While you’re there, be sure to sign up for my newsletter. While it’s supposed to be monthly, it’s really published more when I feel like I have something worth sharing. We all have wayyyy too much that wants our attention. I hope that, when you see my newsletter in your inbox, you’ll always be willing to take 2-3 minutes to read it because you already know you aren’t wasting that time.

The link to my website is in my bio.

30/09/2026

Three Amigos.

Mud Buddies.

Water Horses.

They always make good photography subjects, don’t they?

28/09/2026

You’re an aspiring wildlife photographer.

You want to improve your skills.

You found my page. Now what?

Follow me, and join me on a photography expedition somewhere in the world.

Skills, fun, personal coaching, good people, lots of wildlife. That’s Blackwood Safaris.

26/09/2026

I was thinking about World Gorilla Day and why gorilla tourism is so important.

Many people say “leave the gorillas alone, don’t bother them. Why are you in their space?” I agree with you. They should be left in peace to survive in their mountains without any interference or impact from human activities.

But, that’s not reality. In this photo, you can see flat land and a gentle hillside. That land is perfect for the cultivation of coffee or food crops. If you are a sustenance farmer, that land is incredibly valuable to you. It will feed your family. It may even provide enough to sell surplus crops. There are no jobs in these rural communities. There are no grocery stores. People rely on growing their own food. Land is everything.

Gorillas, monkeys, browsers and elephants love crops. Just a few can decimate the season’s work in a couple of hours. Losing your crops means you won’t have money to send your children to school, buy clothing, buy staples like salt…and your family is going to have to scrap and scrabble until the next harvest, a year from now, just to eat.

If it comes down to watching your child die of malnutrition or eliminating the competition and opening up the land for production, you know what choice you’ll make.

This happens all over the world, in every wild place, because humans who are hungry (or greedy—let’s not dismiss the corporate farms!) cannot coexist with wildlife if they depend on growing their own food to survive.

That’s where tourism makes a difference. When the wild environment and the animals are more valuable and generate more income than a farm, the community will protect them. Ideally, it shouldn’t be this way, but it is.

So, we take people to see these fragile ecosystems and their wildlife. Local people sell souvenirs, or work at the lodges, or become rangers or guides. Income is generated. Tourists see wild animals outside of zoos. While it’s not ideal for the animals, it is what keeps their ecosystem intact and their lives spared.

There’s an entire conversation about the pressures we put on these places. That’s for another day.

Plan a trip. Save a life.

25/09/2026

When your nose weighs 300 lbs, it’s convenient to have a built in hook on which to carry it, isn’t it?

These are the kind of moments I love as a wildlife photographer.

22/09/2026

I’ve been very lucky to come across Unicorns around the world: animals that shouldn’t exist, or are functionally extinct, with extremely unlikely chances of seeing one in the wild.

My clients and I found three white rhinos—a female, a sub-adult calf, and an almost mature bull—wallowing in mud. I was coaching the photographers to use light and shadow to capture texture patterns for something a little different.

The young bull rhino ambled by me to go graze while my group concentrated on the two still in the mud. I noticed his bright blue eye. In the wild, blue or cloudy eyes are damaged, blind eyes; the cornea is no longer clear. Only a few specific mammal species have blue eyes—a lemur species, a local mutation in coyotes in California—and they don’t include rhinos. I felt sad that he’d been permanently blinded at such a young age.

We locked eyes and met each other’s gaze for a moment. His eye stayed on me as he walked by.

HIS EYE STAYED ON ME AS HE WALKED BY. It moved in its socket.

His pupil dilated and pinpointed as he walked through dappled sunlight.

My breath and heart froze. He was not blind. He could see and he had a blue eye.

Later, I contacted the reserve’s wildlife vet to ask about it. He knew the rhino family and said that the young bull rhino was blind. I assured him that his eye followed me and his pupil was reactive to light. “I know the rhino you’re talking about. He’s blind. I suppose blue eyes are genetically possible but it’s completely improbable. The blue gene is ridiculously recessive in animals. There’s no such thing as a blue-eyed rhino.”

I contacted other African wildlife vets, all of whom said it wasn’t possible, that it must be blind…until I shared my photos.

Later in the year, the vets checked the young bull, and sure enough, he had a perfectly healthy blue eye. They had dismissed it in the past because it was blue, and blue is always blind.

As far as I know, he is the only documented blue-eyed rhino in the world. He is a Unicorn. And he let me in on his secret, a moment for which I’m ever awed and grateful. I wanted to share him today, on .

22/09/2026

We are celebrating Unicorns today…Africa’s chubby unicorns. Enjoy a few of my favorite rhino shots.

As a longtime wildlife photographer and guide, I take every opportunity to share endangered species in the hopes that someone will feel connected to them, interested in their story and survival. Every voice adds value to preserving wild spaces. Your voice counts.

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