Botswana – The Delta & Beyond is a collection of wildlife and landscape images from Pam and Wayne’s travels to one of the world’s great wilderness destinations.
Botswana has the world’s largest elephant population (around 130,000). It’s a wildlife photographer’s paradise with a strong environmental protection ethic and a zero tolerance to poaching. Whilst some poaching does occur, Botswana fares better than most of its neighbours.
The lush heart of the famed Okavango Delta is encircled by vast tracts of parched Kalahari sand which comprises 70% of Botswana’s land mass. The delta’s intricate maze of lakes, canals and marshes is flushed with rainfall runoff from the Angolan highlands; A gift of fertility that nurtures a haven for wildlife and a jewel for photographers.
These images are from their travels in 2013, 2014, 2016 & 2019. The Panhandle, Okavango Delta, Linyanti Marshes, Savuti Channel and the Makgadikgadi Pan are all represented.
ANZEC Member - Wayne Osborn
Wayne has been an active SCUBA diver and Underwater Photographer since 1974. He resides in Perth, Western Australia with his wife Pam. They have an interest in whale conservation and have travelled to the Azores, the Great Barrier Reef and Tonga to document sperm, minke and humpback whales. Wayne and Pam donate many of their images to whale researchers and have documented the migration of humpback whales along the Western Australian coast since 2006. Pam has photographed 2,500 individual humpbacks in that time. Their images have been included in numerous reference books and Wayne's image of a dwarf minke whale is on the cover of the 2nd edition of Marine Mammals of the World.Wayne was the Australian Geographic Australasian Nature Photographer of the Year in 2012.They have published a number of iBooks including "In Pursuit of Whales" and "A Long Lens in Africa - Birds of East & Southern Africa."
