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Early morning in Africa's Great Rift Valley,just south of Lake Naivasha. This photograph was taken from the Western Wall of the Rift Valley looking across the valley floor to the Aberdare Mountains in the far distance.
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Sunrise over Lake Naivasha with the Aberdare Mountains rising to a height of 13,000 feet in the distance. Lake Naivasha is the highest lake of Africa's Great Rift Valley and has the reputation as an ornithologist's paradise.
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Fishermen set out at daybreak in their traditional wooden craft,called in Ki-Swahili mashua,to fish beyond the coral reef,which lies less than half a mile offshore. The reef gives them protection from the high seas of the Indian Ocean during the monsoon winds.
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Fishermen set out at daybreak in their traditional wooden craft,called in Ki-Swahili mashua,to fish beyond the coral reef,which lies less than half a mile offshore. The reef gives them protection from the high seas of the Indian Ocean during the monsoon winds.
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Fishermen set out at daybreak in their traditional wooden craft,called in Ki-Swahili mashua,to fish beyond the coral reef,which lies less than half a mile offshore. The reef gives them protection from the high seas of the Indian Ocean during the monsoon winds.
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Fishermen set out at daybreak in their traditional wooden craft,called in Ki-Swahili mashua,to fish beyond the coral reef,which lies less than half a mile offshore. The reef gives them protection from the high seas of the Indian Ocean during the monsoon winds.
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Fishermen set out at daybreak in their traditional wooden craft,called in Ki-Swahili mashua,to fish beyond the coral reef,which lies less than half a mile offshore. The reef gives them protection from the high seas of the Indian Ocean during the monsoon winds.
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Fishermen set out at daybreak in their traditional wooden craft,called in Ki-Swahili mashua,to fish beyond the coral reef,which lies less than half a mile offshore. The reef gives them protection from the high seas of the Indian Ocean during the monsoon winds.
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At daybreak,a jahazi ( a wooden sailing boat,smaller than an ocean-going dhow) sails out of Mombasa Old Port,past the battlements of Fort Jesus. The Portuguese built the fort at the entrance to the harbour between 1593 and 1598. In the first half of the 20th century,it was used as a prison but it is now a national museum.
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From the Zomba Plateau,low mist hugs the contours of the surrounding land at daybreak. .
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Early morning ground mist surrounds Fischer's Tower,an ancient volcanic plug,in a region of Kenya where the latent signs of volcanic activity are still evident. The Aberdare Mountains rise in the far distance. The tower was named after a German explorer,Gustav Fischer,who was the first European to reach the area in 1883.
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Fishermen set out at daybreak in their traditional wooden craft,called in Ki-Swahili mashua,to fish beyond the coral reef,which lies less than half a mile offshore. The reef gives them protection from the high seas of the Indian Ocean during the monsoon winds.
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At daybreak,cone-shaped hills accentuated by ground mist dot the foothills of the 7,000-foot-high Chyulu Hills. This beautiful range is of relatively young volcanic origin.
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Early morning ground mist surrounds Fischer's Tower,an ancient volcanic plug,in a region of Kenya where the latent signs of volcanic activity are still evident. The Aberdare Mountains rise in the far distance. The tower was named after a German explorer,Gustav Fischer,who was the first European to reach the area in 1883.
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Mount Kenya at sunrise. At 17,058 feet,Mount Kenya is Africa's second highest snow-capped mountain. Its peak is the hard plug of a huge ancient volcano that was active 5 million years ago.
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An early morning mist silhouettes acacia trees along a seasonal watercourse in Tanzania's vast Serengeti National Park. The mist will soon evaporate beneath the rays of the rising sun to herald a scorching day. .
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Two fishermen paddle home as the blood-red glow of the setting sun reflects in Malawi's vast inland sea. .
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Sunrise from the Zomba Plateau looking southeast towards Mount Mulanje (in the far distance). .
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Sunset over Mount Mulanje (9,840 feet) from the Zomba Plateau. Mulanje is the highest point in Malawi and in all of Southern Africa north of Lesotho and the Drakensberg Mountains. Rising steeply from the surrounding plains,it is a place of great natural beauty. .
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A Gabbra herdsman drives his camels across the Chalbi Desert at sunset. The Gabbra are a Cushitic tribe of nomadic pastoralists living with their herds of camels and goats around the fringe of the Chalbi Desert.
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In the late afternoon,storm clouds gather over Amboseli. The mountain in the background is Longido (8,625 feet) situated close to the Kenya/Tanzania border town of Namanga.
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As the sun rises over Lake Turkana,a lone Turkana fisherman sits on his traditional fishing baskets to await the arrival of his companions before fishing the shallow waters for tilapia.
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Sunset with silhouettes of Doum palms.The Manyara escarpment a western wall of Africa's Great Rift Valley is clearly visible in the background..
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Sunrise over Ol Doinyo Lengai, The Maasais Mountain of God, which is the only active volcano in the Gregory Rift.An important section of the eastern branch of Africas Great Rift Valley.
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Traditional rafts of the Il Chamus people at sunset. Related to the Samburu,the Il Chamus live on the islands of Lake Baringo. They make a unique raft from the light wood of the Ambatch tree that grows in swampy ground around the lake.
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Camels belonging to the Gabbra in the Chalbi Desert at sunset. The Gabbra are a Cushitic tribe of nomadic pastoralists living with their herds of camels and goats around the fringe of the Chalbi Desert.
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Camels belonging to the Gabbra in the Chalbi Desert at sunset. The Gabbra are a Cushitic tribe of nomadic pastoralists living with their herds of camels and goats around the fringe of the Chalbi Desert.
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At daybreak,fishermen leave Dunga Beach to fish the shallow waters of Lake Victoria's Kavirondo Gulf near Kisumu. The style of wooden boat they use is called a Sese canoe after Uganda's Sese island archipelago where the inhabitants built boats of that design.Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world.
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A fine stand of Euphorbia trees (Euphorbia candelabrum) with the Mau Escarpment a western wall of the Gregory Rift in the background..
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At nightfall,a Turkana man fishes for tilapia and Nile perch off a spit on the barren eastern shoreline of Lake Turkana. He must be on constant lookout for crocodiles,which abound.
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A lone Turkana fisherman with his traditional fishing basket strikes an impressive pose on the shores of Lake Turkana as he waits the arrival of his companions before fishing the shallow waters for tilapia.
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As the sun rises over Lake Turkana,a group of fishermen set out with their traditional fishing baskets to catch talapia in the lake's shallow waters. These traditional methods of fishing are now rare because the introduction of small mesh gillnets has resulted in a marked decline of fish stocks close to the shore.
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As the sun rises over Lake Turkana,a group of fishermen set out with their traditional fishing baskets to catch talapia in the lake's shallow waters. These traditional methods of fishing are now rare because the introduction of small mesh gillnets has resulted in a marked decline of fish stocks close to the shore.
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Watching the sun go down behind Longido Mountain on a game drive from Tortilis Camp.
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Sunset with a doum palm (Hyphaene coriacea) silhouetted in water at the northern end of the ephemeral alkaline lake,Eyasi,which lies in a false arm of the Great Rift Valley southeast of the Ngorongoro Highlands.
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Dawn breaks over Mount Meru (14,980 feet). As its shape indicates,Mount Meru is a volcano,which was formed some 20 million years ago during earth movements that created Africa's Great Rift Valley. It lasted erupted only 100 years ago. The acacia tree the attractive flat-topped thorn tree of the African plains is an Acacia tortilis.
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Dawn over Ol doinyo Lengai, The Maasais Mountain of God, which is the only active volcano in the Gregory Rift, an important section of the eastern branch of Africas Great Rift Valley.
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View of acacia tree silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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View of acacia tree and safari jeep silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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View of acacia tree and safari jeep silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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View of acacia tree silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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View of two trees silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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View of acacia tree silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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View of acacia tree silhouetted against beautiful sunrise sky, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
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A hot air balloon takes off in Masai Mara Game Reserve as the sun rises over distant hills.
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Kenya,Chalbi Desert,Kalacha. A Gabbra herdsman presents a lonely figure standing under a flat-topped acacia tree on the edge of the Chalbi Desert at sunset. The Gabbra are a Cushitic tribe of nomadic pastoralists living with their herds of camels and goats around the fringe of the Chalbi Desert.
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Daybreak over Lake Baringo with a Goliath Heron (Ardea goliath) silhouetted in the reeds.
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Cathedral Rock stands out dark and foreboding in Lake Lokipi as the first rays of sun bring colour to the lava mountains that surround the southern end of the Suguta Valley. Lokipi is seasonal but lesser flamingos flock here after rain.
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Watching the sun go down behind Longido Mountain on a game drive from Tortilis Camp.
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Sunrise through the hole made in a baobab tree by an elephant in the Ruaha National Park of Southern Tanzania.In dry weather,elephants eat the bark and fibrous pith of these trees,which have a high mineral and moisture content.
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Sunset on the edge of the Ntwetwe saltpan where moklowane or African fan palms grow in profusion. Ntwetwe is the western of two huge saltpans,which comprise the immense Makgadikgadi region of the Northern Kalahari one of the largest expanses of saltpans in the world.
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Zambia,Tongabezi Lodge,Zambezi River. Sundowners at Tongabezi,looking across the Zambezi river
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Shafts of light provide a dramatic sunset through hail bearing storm clouds.
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As the sun rises over Lake Turkana, a group of fishermen fish for tilapia with their traditional fishing baskets in the lakes shallow waters. These traditional methods of fishing are now rare because the introduction of small mesh gillnets has resulted in a marked decline of fish stocks close to the shore.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. The setting sun breaks through clouds to light up the plains of Kenya
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Sunrise in Hell’s Gate National Park with the Aberdare Mountains rising in the far distance,Nakuru,Kenya
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Early morning ground mist surrounds Fischer's Tower,an ancient volcanic plug,in a region of Kenya where the latent signs of volcanic activity are still evident. The Aberdare Mountains rise in the far distance. The tower was named after a German explorer,Gustav Fischer,who was the first European to reach the area in 1883.A Grant's gazelle can be seen in the foreground.
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Three men pole a dugout canoe by moonlight in shallow water along Diani Beach.
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A Gabbra herdsman presents a lonely figure in the Chalbi Desert at sunset. The Gabbra are a Cushitic tribe of nomadic pastoralists living with their herds of camels and goats around the fringe of the Chalbi Desert.
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Gabbra tribesmen watch over their camels at a water hole on the edge of the Chalbi Desert. The Gabbra are a Cushitic tribe of nomadic pastoralists living with their herds of camels and goats around the fringe of the Chalbi Desert.
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At daybreak,fishermen leave Dunga Beach to fish the shallow waters of Lake Victoria's Kavirondo Gulf near Kisumu. The style of wooden boat they use is called a Sese canoe after the Sese islanders who originally made it in Uganda's portion of the lake.Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world.
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With his traditional fishing basket poised,a Turkana fisherman rushes to catch a tilapia in the shallow waters of Lake Turkana. The conical shaped basket,three to four feet wide at the mouth and made from pliable sticks and twisted doum palm fronds,has a small flap at the top of the cone through which trapped fish are removed.
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As the sun rises over the low-lying Suguta Valley,Lesser flamingos hug the shoreline of Lake Lokipi - a seasonal lake on the mud flats situated at the northern end of the valley.
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Sunrise against a silhouette of an acacia (flat-topped thorn tree) festooned with weaver birds nests.
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A baobab tree silhouetted against the rays of a setting sun in a stormy sky.
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Sun's rays and baobab tree in the Ruaha National Park of Southern Tanzania.
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Sunrise through the hole made in a baobab tree by an elephant in the Ruaha National Park of Southern Tanzania.In dry weather,elephants eat the bark and fibrous pith of these trees,which have a high mineral and moisture content.
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A Dassanech girl leaning against a bale of cattle fodder on a raised platform is silhouetted against the evening sky at a settlement alongside the Omo River. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) are Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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Spruce Forest in Early Morning Mist at Sunrise, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany
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Spruce Forest in Early Morning Mist at Sunrise, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany
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Spruce Forest in Early Morning Mist at Sunrise, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany
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