Featured Photographers

This week Photodestination brings you the outdoor and wildlife photography of Morkel Erasmus. Since picking up a DSLR camera for the first time, a little over 3 years ago, Morkel has been invigorated with an unbridled passion for the photographic art form. He has grown at a tremendous pace and put immense energy into the creation of his images.

Sean Pattrick is the founder of Natural Exposure CC, a company that was born in 2002 to offer others the exposure and experience of wildlife that Sean himself is passionate about, be it through the lens of a camera or in the form of guided nature safaris.

Liesel Kershoff, is a talented landscape photographer, from Caledon in the Western Cape, South Africa.

"Liesel Kershoff may use a camera and a tripod to make her images, but in spirit she is more like painter. Like Banes and Pierneef, who would take their easels out into the veld, Liesel spends many hours in remote locations, watching the light and waiting for the right moment to press the shutter button. And, like a landscape painter, there is a degree of subjective interpretation in her work”

- Jon Minster (Weg/Go! Magazine, March 2011)

Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Mark Dumbleton is a talented wildlife and landscape photographer. Born with a passion for the outdoors, he has travelled throughout Africa, photographing the spectacles and nuances of the natural world. "Evoking an emotion through photographic art stems from a life-long passion for the wilderness" says Mark.

Kobus Tollig was born in South Africa in 1979. He developed a love for nature from a young age, and this led to a desire to capture the wonderful surroundings he experienced in his native country. In 2005 he bought his first compact digital camera, and started getting involved with other photographers.

The transition to DSLR technology was a logical next step, and followed 9 months later. From this point, he developed his skills and technique fervently. Mostly self-taught, he does credit his close photographer friends over the past few years, with helping him grow to the level of experience he finds himself now and being able to do what he so loves full time.

He has become proficient in a wide range of photographic fields, and you can view some of his favourite wildlife and landscape images in the portfolio below.

As a dedicated conservationist and wildlife photographer, Peter Chadwick has worked throughout southern Africa in some of its most special wild places. These include the Kalagadi Desert, Kruger National Park, Drakensberg Mountains, the sub-antarctic Marion Island and De Hoop Nature Reserve and Marine Protected Area.