New Website Cassio & Alessandra Photography

Dear friends, followers and visitors,

due to lots of things to do in our lives we have opted for concentrating the best of our pictures portfolio in our exclusive Photography Site: Cassio & Alessandra Photography. There you can browse through the galleries with the selection of the very best pictures, and we have been updating with the images of our recent trips to Africa.

If you wish to use the pictures in your publications, the website provides a online photo usage license store for the pictures and also for prints and articles decorated with the pictures for those living in Europe or USA. And if you prefer you can contact us by e-mail at contact@cassioalessandraphotography.com.

We can also be found in Facebook for contact, the link of our profiles is on the right side of this screen.

Cheers,
Cassio.

No bad weather for lions in the Mara

I have arrived on the Mara after a quick flight from Nairobi Wilson Airport to Olkiombo airstrip. Heading to the camp we just had time to have lunch and officially meet the crew that would be part of this promising trip before we did our first game drive.

One of the first sightings we have had opportunity to photograph in this trip as soon as we have gone out for the first safari drive in the afternoon was about some of the Paradise Pride females diving their claws and teeth on a big wildebeest carcass.



The wildebeest was still fresh, so I think we missed the whole action for quite little time. The weather was not so good for photography because the rain started to fall in the afternoon and sky was still cloudy, and light was already fading fast with the night coming up, but the scene was perfect for warming up our gears and I was extreme anxious imagining what the Mara reserved for us for that first drive, so I clicked…



On the technical side, there are those who prefer to keep the coolness of the scene and keep white balance neutral to cold, while others prefer to force warm tones. I think both options produce excellent results. The dramatic appeal of this scene in particular accepts both settings, although I personally think that the best picture in this set is this one with colder aspect, I can nearly feel the fresh air and smell the earth moisture drenched by the afternoon showers – what do you think?



The lionesses had no competitors around such as hyenas or other lionesses of the pride, but this could be just a matter of time given the hour of the day. As long as we stayed there, we could calmly observe these lionesses enjoy their dinner peacefully.



What a start! How I missed that place…! These lionesses on a kill were exactly what I needed to revive the feeling of being back on that enchanting place called Maasai Mara.

More updates to come…


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All the pictures herein are copyrighted by Alessandra Santos and Cassio Lopes. The pictures cannot be copied, reproduced or used for any other intent without express authorization of the authors. If you are interested in any picture of our portfolio shown here, please get in contact with us through the e-mails links in this page or by accessing our Facebook page.

Back to the best wildlife spot on Earth

Maasai Mara is beyond comparison to any other place on Earth in terms of mammals density. Mainly during the Great Wildbeest Migration, a yearly phenomenon that floods this park in Kenya with an enormous amount of herbivores. Millions of wildebeests and hundreds of thousands zebras cross all the way from Serengeti in Tanzania up to the green lands of Maasai Mara in Kenya, which flourishes of green grass with the seasonal rains that hits this region in the first half of the year. Of course that with this movement of herbivores around, the Mara resident predators enjoy what is for them the best moment of the year, and this is what my trip to the Mara this year brings up: delightful sightings of our favorite big cats, including from frugal behavior to breathtaking action.

I will tell here some of the most exciting scenes I have ever witnessed in my past safaris in Africa and in the Mara.

Having so many excellent wildlife viewing and specially bigcat sightings, which provided so many stunning photographic opportunities, is not about being lucky, but the result of guidance of a very experienced and knowledgeable team formed by renowned professional wildlife photographers Jonathan Scott and Angie Scott, the most skilled and best wildlife specialist cameraman Warren Samuels, and a very dedicated team of genuine maasai drivers and trackers led by Jackson Looseyia of Rekero Camp, which hosted the group of 16 adventurous guests of this fantastic trip.









This brilliant week starts in the very core of Maasai Mara reserve, the region called the Mara Confluence where Mara river meets the Talek river, exactly where Rekero Camp is settled every year. We have spent almost 8 days in this nature’s paradise and along this week many scenes have been seen. I sincerely hope I can transmit you the joy and thrill of these scenes through my pictures.

Keep watching… the adventure is just beginning…


Note: you can click on the picture to take you to the original size picture in our Flickr album page, being better to see the photographs you like. Or if you may want to go straight to our Flickr page, please access the link Our Flickr Page
All the pictures herein are copyrighted by Alessandra Santos and Cassio Lopes. The pictures cannot be copied, reproduced or used for any other intent without express authorization of the authors. If you are interested in any picture of our portfolio shown here, please get in contact with us through the e-mails links in this page or by accessing our Facebook page.

We are back...

New interesting and thrilling posts to come. After almost an year of refrain we will restart writing new stories and publish pictures of our latest trips to Africa.

Get back to you soon.

Cheers!