Lance van de Vyver - Panthera Photo Safaris
Lance van de Vyver - Panthera Photo Safaris
Here at Panthera Photo Safaris we bring your safari experience into sharp focus by offering you award-winning photography guidance in the field in the best wildlife destinations in the world. Our custom-made safaris and dedicated photography workshops are put together using first-hand knowledge of destinations and a passion for wildlife.
Lance is your private guide together with Kirstin and brings a wealth of destination knowledge, guiding experience, and decorated photography background. His images have won multiple awards in over five different countries and his ability to tutor passionate photographers in the field has led to the creation of our photographic workshops.
Whether you’re looking for a luxurious private safari, a dedicated photographic workshop, or eager to take part in a hands-on conservation project, we can create an experience tailored for you.
This channel is dedicated to nip bits, safari debriefs and teaching.
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I really enjoyed your video!
Awesome video and recap of your safari Lance! Yes EP is definitely amazing value for money with unbelievable sightings I did a 3 night/4 day safari there in November last year and it was nothing short of spectacular Leopard wise we saw 8 different individuals (Tiyani, her blue eyed cub that was killed about 3 weeks later, Xidulu, Nhenhe, Tlalamba, Xitsalala, Tortoise Pan, Laluka) with 11 Leopard sightings in total! Good lion sightings as well with walk bys after dark of the Nkuhumas and the Talamati breakaways. And one sighting of one of the Black Dam males I compared the spot pattern etc of that male leopard that you guys saw on your afternoon drive on day 4 to my footage of the Xitsalala male and it does indeed look like it was him that you saw. He likes the Buffelshoek area.
Awesome, thank you so much! We didn't see Xitsalala long enough to get a good look, and he's a new leopard for me :D
I've never done a South Africa safari, but as a photographer I think I would go insane from hearing that I have to wait in a queue at a sighting or that an animal moved into a neighboring property and we couldn't follow.
Luckily they have their radios in their ears so you would never know :D It goes both ways though... as a photographic guide its our job to manage the "queues" and get in at the right time for the best activity. The properties are large, so its only really the dogs that are constantly in or out. Beats being in a sighting with 85 vehicles behind the animals :D
AMAZING 😻 ❤
Fantastic images and video. Maybe just something small, the video shows a high percentages of you talking. It just felt to long and I eventualy scrolled to the images and videos. Still I enjoyed the information and the video. Thank you!
Thanks for the tip! I will keep that in mind 😎
@@PantheraPhotoSafaris I actually liked the talking and explaning everything. Probably cause I've been to Sabi Sands a few times, so I'm familiar with the different properties and individual leopards and lion prides. And also because I'm inquisitive and like to know EVERYTHING 😊
@@jackieboshoff2013 Thanks Jackie. I will try and find a better balance of talking and images / video :D Its difficult to do a trip report without talking too much haha.
@PantheraPhotoSafaris I liked the balance of talking vs videos and images
@@jackieboshoff2013 Awesome, thanks :D
What an amazing safari, leopard sightings galore. Tiyani, Xidulu, Nhenhe and more What a buzz and those Plains Camp males are so strong and healthy looking. Poor lioness. Really enjoyed this vid, thank you.
Thank you so much. We had a great time! Those boys are HUGE!
My heart almost stopped when I saw how close Nhenhe was to those lions. Glad he was ok. You got some beautiful shots, sounds like it was a brilliant trip!
Thank you so much. We were very surprised he decided to climb a tree and watch them rather than running away! Maybe not such a smart move haha
Superb video Lance you really got some winner shots this trip 👍👍
Thank you so much! Such a great location
It was an amazing experience, one that we will never forget. It was so good that we are going back next year! Thank you Lance! And a great recap of the trip! I suspect it will be about 6 months till I get the chance to edit my videos 😂
It was so great having you guys! Sorry we couldn't show you more leopards 😝
Difficult to beat Elephant Plains in terms of price - quality of sightings! Amazing!
For price, nothing beats it!
Looks like you had an aaaamazing safari! 😃
We had an absolute blast! Thanks for watching
Wonderful update. Definitely a lodge I’m keen on On what other properties can elephant plains traverse on?
Thanks so much for watching! It's an absolute must. They can traverse on Silvan, Arathusa, Djuma, Simbabili and Buffelshoek
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So good! 👍
me eating breakfast and watching the security camera making sure he doesn't steal my phone
Hah!
Yes i did know
Well done!
Also dogs and cats
No
Leopards are cats 😉
Great...execuse me, this lent is a canon EF 300 2.8? Thanks
Hello there. This is an RF 400 f2.8
Breathtaking shots!
Many thanks!
Absolutely amazing safari! I want to go again ❤
That lion looking through the leaves… 🤤🤤🤤
Hehe Right?!
Beautiful shots 👏👏👏
Thanks a lot!
Now that's a hide.
Glad you like it :D
Poor Rosie o'Donnell, rest in pieces you vile hag !
Super pro work Thanks for sharing 🌷🙏🏼
Thank you too
Really useful. I'm heading to a hide in the UK to photograph Kingfishers next week and this is exactly what I was looking for. I don't use my 500mm f4 to anywhere near its full potential. Thank you :)
Glad it was helpful!
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That is some beautiful bird watching place! Thanks for explanation...first day of using 200-400mm f4 and was not really sure what this means. Instead of googling I knew someone on KZread would explain it perfectly. Just wondering, are you using back button focus? Thanks again! God bless you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes I use back button focus! On my canon mirrorless bodies I actually use 3 back buttons simultaneously!
How many times a year do you do trips to Inyati
Hi there! Sorry I missed this somehow. We dont run any scheduled trips there at this stage, but we can organise private safaris like the one in this video any time as long as there is space :)
This is so good 👍
Thank you!
Awesome to see ❤
:D
Very informative and some great results!
Thank you so much!
Great lions pictures thé biggest male is the legendary nenha one and the last survivor of the legendary coalition called birmngham boys and the young male is the son of nenha
Thank you very much 😁
Hermoso ❤
Thanks for explaining the feature! But is it suppose to save the last setting ? Or do you need to set it again every session?
Hello. If your camera turns off it will unfortunately reset....but if it just sleeps it will remember it (at least in my cameras, it may differ with other brands).
@@PantheraPhotoSafaris Thanks so much! I was so worried that my lens was faulty!
I wish they would update the firmware on the series II lenses to have the dual presets. That would be killer on my 500 f/4 II. Especially since they never made a series III version of that one. I guess I'll have to save up for the RF600 at this point... perhaps 8 years from now... LOL
It sure would! It's very sad when simple things like this aren't considered. RF600 would be a dream!
I thought the squirrels here in the UK were a pest for interfering with my camera trap, but those monkeys are on another level.😲 Thanks for taking us along Lance. You got some great images. 👍
Haha thanks so much! One day they even sat there alarm calling at me as well....great for not attracting yourself to african wildlife 🤣🤣
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The warthog should make a .ad rush out of his current spot for its life instead to waiting/defending his spot/burrow as it is a DEAD END situation
That's what the dogs are trying to do, once in the open the warthog is easily overrun.
I'd call that a success. You got some good shots and learned some things. Maybe next time you can paint the red handles on the sensor mounts. I painted my camera box and light sand brown since a lot of things here are that color. Test and adjust is what we do in camera trapping. In fact I'm on my way up this morning to adjust the lighting on my camera trap 🙂
Ohhh good luck with the lights! I am definitely painting those handles next time! Possibly swapping them out for something slightly sturdier also. I'm happy with the images I got, just unhappy after returning on multiple occasions to find fresh tracks and no images due to monkeys :D
@@PantheraPhotoSafaris I know that feeling!
Got to love the mischievous monkeys! Great information, thanks for sharing!
Haha not sure if I loved them :D
Great work.. well done .. very well put together.
Thanks so much! Pity I missed the last week of filming due to time restraints
Love the camera trap so informative. The hippos and monkey interaction was fabulous. Really good tips for the camera trap
Thanks so much! Haha hippos yes, monkeys....not so much!
Some cool shots of the hippos and other animals but jeez those monkeys are annoying 🤣🤣
Haha sooooooooooooo annoying!
Haha brilliant! Monkey steals the show 🤣
The monkeys were the best🤣🤣🤣
Little rats!
Great clip 👌
Hovering and egypten geese 😍
Those geese were 100% hovering!
Majority cant afford such lenses anyways. I think already im spoiled with a RF 800 F11 xD
This is very true. We are seeing a greater increase of clients renting long lenses for their "once a year" type safaris :)
It make anyways much more sense for something like once a year safaris, but when it comes to the hobby birder like me for example… you just need to OWN THE LENSES. You cant just rent the same lens every few weeks And what i know, the only really affordable stuff is pretty much a few lenses for each system. At canon there are more and more 100-400 II affordable, i tried to replace the 150-600 sigma with it but somehow i own now both and dont want to give away any of them lol The 100-400II is very awesome for video, macro and on full frame, but also sharp enough for APS-C at open aperture as a nice allrounder telezoom But the 200mm extra reach of the sigma are in overall just awesome, the F6.3, often used at F8 and the heavy weight are mainly the reasons i use nowadays often the 100-400 over the sigma