Host Toby Jermyn welcomes wildlife photographer and photographic guide Lance van de Vyver, a New Zealand-born zoology graduate who moved to South Africa in 2012 and now runs specialist photographic safaris and co-hosts the Safari Shots podcast.

Lance discusses trips to Tanzania and Botswana’s Makgadikgadi and possible travel to India. He shares a career-launching black-and-white image of a pangolin being handled by a lioness, explaining the brief sighting and that the pangolin later died from heat and prolonged stress, prompting discussion about stricter guidelines and the Pangolin Guardians program.

He also describes a portrait of a captive-born pangolin pup later released, a flash-at-sunset leopard technique and ethics, a black-and-white giant anteater (“broomstick”) in Brazil, and a stitched telephoto lion portrait. His admired image is Thomas Vijayan’s camera-trap photograph of an Amur leopard. Lance struggles to choose a single ‘humble dwelling’ location, considering several safari regions.

Here is a link to a gallery of Lance's images: https://pangolin.smugmug.com/SmugMug-Website/Pangolin-Podcast/Lance-van-de-Vyver/Meet-the-Pro-Lance-van-de-Vyver

Connect with Lance
https://www.lancevandevyver.com/

https://www.instagram.com/lancevandevyver
https://www.youtube.com/c/lancevandevyver

GUEST IMAGE - Thomas Vijayan
https://www.thomasvijayan.com/
https://www.instagram.com/thomasvijayan/

00:00 Welcome
00:58 Meet Lance
04:03 1st Image (1A) - Scaly Protection
13:16 1st Image (1B) – Fragile Future
16:10 2nd Image – Leopard Flash
22:54 3rd Image - Broomstick
27:08 4th Image – Queen of Mana
34:36 5th Image - Guest Image Amur Leopard
37:55 Where to Photograph Forever
39:38 Podcast Farewell and Credits

The Pangolin Podcast was produced and edited by Bella Falk: https://www.passportandpixels.com

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