Japan

Travel is a very personal thing. Your favorite meal or sight will vary based on what things you hold most dear. Throughout all my travels, no other place perfectly captures the things I hold most dear (love for electronics, geekdom, attention to detail, pursuit of affection, minimalistic design and zen-like harmony, to name a few…) more than Japan. It is my favorite country of all the places I’ve visited and I’ve been back over 10 times by now.

Where to Begin?

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Kyoto

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Bamboo Forest

Regardless of whether you are an amateur, enthusiast or pro, the one common denominator you need for shooting wildlife is a camera with serious zoom. Whether this is a small compact with 30x zoom, a mirrorless APS-C with 100-400 lens or a full frame Canikon with 300mm F2 bazooka, that will depend on how much you care about photography!
For reference, all of the photos on this page were shot using a Fujifilm X-H1 with 100-400mm Zoom Lens with 1.4x Teleconverter attached.

Temples

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Nara

Look at the prey animals disposition, are they alert, relaxed or running?
Be patient, drive slowly or stay in one spot and use your binoculars to scout the terrain; in a few minutes or not, sometimes animals will emerge from the bush
In Kruger Park, particularly on the main roads, the easiest way to "spot" one of the hard-to-finds will be when you see many cars stopped
In the end, it is all about luck- a group of lions or leopard may have just crossed the road and disappeared into the bush seconds before you rolled by