Bongani

Two years later I went back, and this time on purpose. Bongani Mountain Lodge sits on a granite hill in the Mthethomusha Game Reserve, on the border of Kruger National Park, with the whole lowveld spread out below the deck.

It was June again, winter in the bush. I had a longer lens now, and the lodge brought the animals close: vervet monkeys on the railings at breakfast, bushbabies on the deck after dark, a genet slipping through the grass on a night drive.

Some of these pictures only made sense to me in black and white. The rhino, the zebras and the lioness in the grass are about shape and texture, and colour only got in the way.