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Dick Pitman
Photographer's Summary
Various
6 photos
Some Zambezi animals
10 photos
Elephants
6 photos
Zambezi & Kariba scenics
8 photos
Spirit of wilderness
3 photos

Photos by Dick Pitman

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  • Stock photo: No, she isn’t dead, just taking a nap during a hard day’s foraging in the Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe, at the tail end of the dry season. She got up soon after this pic was taken (early November 2007) and ambled off with her youngster to rejoin the rest of her group. Tuskless elephant cows like this one are notorious for being aggressive, so we didn’t hang around too long after getting some pics!
    Wake up, mom, we g...
    Rating: 7.38 | 783 Views
    Nov 13, 2007
  • Stock photo: The ’Zimbabwe Bird’ is a national symbol, transcending party politics. Its origins are lost in history, and it almost certainly wasn’t a Little Bee-Eater, as this is, but as my wife & I await the election outcome in our Harare home this evening, it seemed appropriate to post this pic.
    Zimbabwe Bird
    Rating: 7.72 | 720 Views
    Apr 01, 2008
  • Stock photo: The lions are incidental, merely a foretaste of things to come when we finally reach the distant end of the long and dusty Road to Mana Pools. First rains have fallen on the red sands of the Zambezi Valley, and the mopanes and other trees have erupted in the first flush of their summer colours. Taken in November 2007, during one of the regular trips to the Zambezi and Mana Pools that keep us sane in our crazy Zimbabwean environment
    The Road to Mana P...
    Rating: 6.88 | 556 Views
    Nov 24, 2007
  • Stock photo: This unfiltered ’mood pic’ was taken in 1982 from the northern end of Fothergill Island, Lake Kariba, loking towards Bumi Hills & the Kota Kota narrows. Little has changed in the intervening years.
    Impala, herons & L...
    Rating: 6.88 | 529 Views
    Aug 05, 2007
  • Stock photo: Silhouette of a bull elephant browsing on a sausage tree (Kigelia africana) beside the Zambezi River in the Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe. Mana Pools is a designated World Heritage Site
    Picking the low-ha...
    Rating: 7.30 | 456 Views
    Oct 06, 2007
  • Stock photo: Acacia albidas, Faidherbia albidas - or winterthorns, or applering acacias to the rest of us - love to have their feet in the water for at least some of the year. They got their chance at Mana Pools, one of Zimbabwe’s premier nature parks, during this year’s rainy season, one of the wettest for several decades. They have a so-called ’reverse foliage cycle’, growing their leaves during the winter and shedding them in summer, and provide vast quantities of fodder for Zambezi Valley wildlife.
    Wet Feet
    Rating: 7.88 | 422 Views
    Feb 21, 2008
  • Stock photo: A three-frame stitch of the Zambezi River, taken near Mcheni in the Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe. It’s a manipulation: the elephant ought to have been there - was usually there - but wasn’t when I took the photo, so I put him in anyway. They cross these channels to get at the grazing on the islands in mid-river. Mana Pools is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
    The Zambezi River,...
    Rating: 8.08 | 350 Views
    Nov 13, 2007
  • Stock photo: I’ve already posted a zebra shot taken in Mana Pools during the rains, in January 2007. By way of contrast, here’s one taken at the height of the dry season, in September 2007.
    Zebra at Mana Pool...
    Rating: 7.90 | 352 Views
    Oct 06, 2007
  • Stock photo: Nt so much the buffalo, but the enchanted woodlands to which they are barring our entry. Taken in the Mana Pools National Pak, Zimbabwe, at the height of the dry season in September 2007
    The Guardians
    Rating: 6.75 | 407 Views
    Oct 06, 2007
  • Stock photo: Bull elephant wading a small Zambezi backwater in the Mana Pools World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe.
    Wading elephant
    Rating: 7.21 | 343 Views
    Aug 30, 2007
  • Stock photo: Long lens, long shot, tight crop, handheld from the deck of our sailboat: a Giant Kingfisher, another Zimbabwe Bird. Taken in the Bonde River, Lake Kariba, last week as Sal and I temporarily escaped the tensions of Harare and the political turmoil gripping the country.
    Giant Kingfisher
    Rating: 7.13 | 339 Views
    May 17, 2008
  • Stock photo: This herd of buffalo came to drink at Chine Pool, in the Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe, while I was sitting on an anthill beside the pool. Mana Pools is a designated World Heritage Site. The females are intent on drinking, but the bull has noticed me, and is wary. The slightly misty effect is caused by the dust kicked up by the rest of the herd, out of shot.
    Buffalo herd drink...
    Rating: 6.36 | 378 Views
    Aug 13, 2007
  • Stock photo: This pic was taken in January 2007 in Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools National Park, in a brief dry period during the good rains that fell in the Zambezi Valley this year. Most visitors only see the Park during the dry season, when the green grass is replaced by grey soil & dust. Zebra are common within the Park, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site which lies on the Zambezi River below the Kariba dam
    Zebra in the Mana...
    Rating: 7.13 | 324 Views
    Aug 06, 2007
  • Stock photo: I know sunsets are cliched, but that’s only because they can be so lovely; I hope the colours have come across properly. The Zambezi River at sunset in the Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe, a World Heritage Site and one of southern Africa’s finest wildlife sanctuaries.
    Zambezi sunset
    Rating: 7.30 | 283 Views
    Oct 06, 2007
  • Stock photo: A bit soft, maybe, but a hand-held, long-lens grabshot before the kudu scampered down the anthill and away into the Mana Pools woodlands. Taken in November 2007, just before the start of the torrential rains that fell in the Zambezi Valley in December. The Mana Pools National Park is a World Heritage Site because of its natural beauty and exceptional wildlife.
    Kudu on an Anthill
    Rating: 7.10 | 285 Views
    Jan 19, 2008
  • Stock photo: Three weeks ago, there was nothing but dust and bare ground. In a month’s time, the grass will be over our heads. There’s a brief ’window’ just after the rains begin, when the grass flushes a brilliant emerald green, and Mana’s elephants gorge themselves on it before moving into the Zambezi Valley hinterland. It’s a lovely - perhaps the loveliest - time to visit Mana; and remarkable that so few people do. My wife and I go there often during the rains, and have the Park virtually to ourselves. Photoshop gurus will quickly detect that I’ve replaced a rather bland, grey sky with a more interesting one, taken on the same day but from a different vantage-point, and inserted using a Blend If layer.
    Elephants & green...
    Rating: 7.25 | 277 Views
    Oct 15, 2008
  • Stock photo: The Zambezi, buffalo, elephants and acacias, all set against the backdrop of the Zambian hills: quintessential Zambezi Valley and Mana Pools. It’sbeen a long dry season, the buffaloare reduced to grazing on the tough stands of Vetivaria grass, the elephants are looking for fodder on the islands in mid-Zambezi. Compare and contrast with ’Elephants and green grass’.
    Quintessential Mana
    Rating: 6.63 | 279 Views
    Oct 15, 2008
  • Stock photo: These egrets are flying down the Mana River to roost on the Zambezi, 200m behind me. Taken in late afternoon in the Mana Pools National Park, just before Christmas 2007 during a brief break in the heavy rains that have fallen in the Zambezi Valley this year.
    Mana River with Eg...
    Rating: 6.30 | 268 Views
    Dec 29, 2007
  • Stock photo: Mana Pools, March 2009, during the wet season. It’s rained in the night, but the skies are clearing and the elephants are fossicking around in a Zambezi backwater shortly after sunrise. A quick, wet and muddy trip, to deliver food and fuel to our cash-strapped Park staff, but it has been wonderful to watch Mana’s incredible transformation from dusty, bare ground to lush tropical paradise.
    Early Morning Eles
    Rating: 7.38 | 219 Views
    Mar 26, 2009
  • Stock photo: Well, a haircut, actually. Sal was absorbed in cutting my hair; I was in the soporific state this induces, when a tiny sound alerted us to the presence of this elephant bull a few feet behind us. ’Hasty’ would describe our exit. If this was a cartoon, there’d be a set of blurred motion lines out of the chair. Zambezi Valley, Mana Pools National Park, November 2008.
    Close Shave
    Rating: 6.90 | 209 Views
    Dec 22, 2008

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