Ronny Gabriels Photography

Wildlife is not only found in Africa. It can be just around the corner. Normally when you think of photographing wildlife, you get visions of safaris, rugged mountain ranges and open meadows, but actually most of us don't live in an area that has any of those things available.  Does this mean you can't shoot wildlife?  Of course not.  Although the wildlife isn't that wild in most cases, it doesn't prevent you from taking nice pictures of animals.  You can debate whether photographing animals in captivity is wildlife photography, but for me the biggest thing here is honesty.  If you shoot a beautiful lion in the zoo and tell everyone that it was taken on a safari, you're just scamming everyone and therefore it can't be tolerated.  However if you just tell everyone it was taken in a zoo, it will still be a beautiful picture and for me it still qualifies as a wildlife shot even though you can probably not send it in for a wildlife photo contest, but who cares. Honesty is the best policy.  And wildlife is wildlife whether they are behind a fence or not.

The photo above was taking in a small stretch of woods in Brasschaat. The deer you see here, were behind a fence which makes me think they are not wild, but hey. I really like the photograph nonetheless. There were quite a big number of animals there and I got some great shots. I really like discoveries like that. Finding something interesting to shoot "around the corner" that you didn't know was there. Therefore I think it's important to take a walk around some area that you think you know very well and watch the details. You never know what you might find. I've uploaded some more photos of that little walk on the site.  You can find them here.