About Me – Wildlife Photography Expert

A picture of a young man smiling on a safari jeep with a camera on his lap, with a young African Elephant a few metres behind on a dirt track in South Africa.

Hi! I’m Josh and I’m the founder of Wildlife Photography Travel.

My Main Goal: Help you take incredible photos of animals around the world.

Long story short, I went to university for 6 months, hated it and dropped out to travel full-time. I started a travel blog and began making enough money to continue to travel and I was fortunate enough to call it my job for a few years.

Along the way, I fell in love with photography, and as someone who has always been interested in animals, the two went hand in hand and I fell in love with wildlife photography.

Fast forward to today where I’ve managed to get pretty good at the craft and have photographed animals in 4 different continents (Europe, Asia, Africa and North America), I’ve started this blog to help other photographers learn how to take photos like me.

I’m on a mission to capture 1000 different mammals on my camera, and so far, I’ve managed to get 41. To be honest, it’s probably higher than this, but this is the number I have photos which I am happy with. All of these are completely wild and in their natural habitat.

Whether you want to learn how to take a decent photo for your upcoming safari trip or perfect your editing skills for a day photographing at your local woods, I’m the guy to help you out.

Oh and by the way, every photo on my site was taken by me, so you can see first-hand the skills I have acquired over the years and aim to pass on to you reading my tips 🙂

Animals I Have Photographed

I’m fortunate enough to say I have photographed some bucket list animals in my time. Don’t get me wrong, my dream list is a hundred times bigger than my completed list, but here is every species which I have photographed in the wild, sorted by animal class and in alphabetical order:

Mammals

  1. Aardwolf
  2. African Buffalo
  3. African Elephant
  4. Asian Elephant
  5. Black Rhinoceros
  6. Black-backed Jackal
  7. Blue Wildebeest
  8. Bottlenose Dolphin
  9. Brown Rat
  10. Bushbuck
  11. Bushpig
  12. Cape Fur Seal
  13. Chacma Baboon
  14. Cheetah
  15. Common Eland
  16. Common Minke Whale
  17. Common Warthog
  18. Dwarf Mongoose
  19. Eastern Gray Squirrel
  20. European Pine Marten
  21. Giraffe
  22. Greater Kudu
  23. Ground Pangolin
  24. Hippopotamus
  25. Honey Badger
  26. Icelandic Horse
  27. Icelandic Sheep
  28. Impala
  29. Leopard
  30. Lion
  31. Long-tailed Macaque
  32. Nyala
  33. Plains Zebra
  34. Red Squirrel
  35. Rock Hyrax
  36. South African Galago
  37. Southern Porcupine
  38. Spotted Hyena
  39. Vervet Monkey
  40. Waterbuck
  41. White Squirrel (Albino Squirrel)

Birds

  • African Grey Hornbill
  • African Penguin
  • African Wood-owl
  • Bald Eagle
  • Barnacle Goose
  • Blue Tit
  • Canada Goose
  • Common Blackbird
  • Congo Peafowl
  • Egyptian Goose
  • Embden Goose
  • Eurasian Chaffinch
  • Eurasian Jay
  • Eurasian Magpie
  • European Goldfinch
  • European Robin
  • Flamingo
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker
  • Great Tit
  • Greater Blue-eared Starling
  • Greylag Goose
  • Helmeted Guineafowl
  • Hooded Vulture
  • House Sparrow
  • Lilac-breasted Roller
  • Mallard Duck
  • Marabou Stork
  • Ostrich
  • Pekin Ducks
  • Pheasant
  • Red-billed Hornbill
  • Rose-ringed Parakeet
  • Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
  • White Stork
  • White-headed Vulture

Reptiles

  • American Alligator
  • Common House Gecko
  • Flap-necked Chameleon
  • Nile Crocodile 
  • Nile Monitor

Arachnids

  • Thailand Black Scorpion (Chaerilus cimrmani)

Important: I have only included animals I have photographed in the wild. I try my best not to feature photos I have taken in zoos, farms or safari parks on my site, as I prefer photographing animals in their natural habitats. That being said, my photos of pandas, polar bears and tigers from zoos are some of my all-time favourites.