LAST KALAHARI SAFARIS!
The bookings are filling up with a few spots left.
These are the dates available with space:
23-27 October 2014
6-10 November 2014
20-24 November 2014
Contact info@lochnerphoto.com

Good morning everyone. We are busy finalising our Photographic Safaris for the end of this year in the Kalahari.
The bookings are filling up with a few spots left.

The dates still available are:
23 – 27 Ocotober (2 places left)
29 October – 3 November (2 places left)
6 – 10 November (2 places left)

If you still have any interest please let us know. These will be our last safaris in the Kalahari for a few years, seeing that we will start a new project soon somewhere in Africa.
We are still awaiting certain permits and will blog soon once our project starts. Then for our duration we will blog weekly and keep you in the loop on our new adventure.

Me and Noa had some great fun with NHU Africa yesterday, getting interviewed for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Event in Pretoria! Will start blogging soon again, still awaiting our permits for our new adventure!

Hallo everyone, it’s time to have some fun in the Kalahari.

We put a few trips out in March before we disappear for our new project in April. We will be back in November for a month as well! These are the dates for photographic safaris in the Kalahari this year. We will be staying at the new Ta Shebube Lodge www.tashebube.com in the Rooiputs area. 4 – 6 people per safari. (minimum of 4)

This workshop includes:

Accommodation at Ta Shebube.
Transfer from Main Gate (Twee Rivieren) to Lodge.
All – meals, tea and coffee, wine with dinner.
Conservation Fees.
All game viewing activities in an open game viewer – 2 gamedrives per day
Photographic Tutoring

Let us know if you are interested.
info@lochnerphoto.com

March:
13-17 March
20-24 March
27-31 March
3-7 April

October:
23-27 October
29 October-3 November
6-10 November
13-17 November
20-24 November

NEW!!!! iPad App of ‘The Dark Side of the Kalahari’ AVAILABLE now on iTunes!!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id737999339

Now this NEW publication is available in an interactive form. Made for iPad and iPad mini and with gorgeous retina graphics you can carry this publication with you wherever you go. The publication has been enriched with videos, made by professional wildlife camera woman Noa Köfler, as well as with interactive maps, with slideshows and wikipedia information. The entire publication can be switched between the English and Afrikaans languages.
A behind the scenes section will show you what working in the Kalahari is like through several videos and slideshows.
Dynamic slideshows illustrating different groups of animals can be generated to use your iPad as a photo frame.
For your information all camera settings have been included for the main publication’s photos and as you can bookmark these pages you are interested in, you can easily locate and consult this information for your learning and photographic improvement.
Also an extra 360 unpublished bonus photos have been included for your enjoyment.

Where available you can instantly buy gorgeous A0-Size prints from selected photos. All Hannes’ printed publications are also available to buy through the app. Purchases are processed securely inside the app using PayPal Mobile.

Thank you for all the support in the last year and hope you have a great festive time with family & friends. Im off to prepare crayfish and and and …. for Xmas lunch and then join Noa for a month on the Italian slopes. See you early in the new year and stay in touch. We will put out dates by end-January for 2014 photographic safaris. Our next project will hopefully start in March 2014. See you soon!

Hannes & Noa

To all the people that owns an iPad or iPad mini, our iPad App is almost ready to be launched. The App includes the following:

1. 200 page book “The Dark Side of the Kalahari” – Full Publication as printed
2. 350 extra photos (See attachment)
3. Behind the scenes slideshows about our life in the Kalahari
4. Behind the scenes video clips by Noa Koefler: “The Kalahari through my eyes”, “A Wild Life”
5. Slideshows
6. Interactive map with the locations the photos were taken
7. Detailed shot information for each photo
8. Links to interesting Wikipedia articles about the subjects in the photos
9. Many photos come with an addition of a short video clip

We will let you know when it is available.
In November we will be doing our last Kalahari Safaris, and then early next year start with a new project for a few years…..
Have a great weekend!
P.S. There is still one spot left on the 7-11 November Kalahari Photo Safari if anyone is interested, due to a late cancellation.

Good afternoon everyone, after 2 long months on the road we are safely back in Cape Town. We would like to thank everyone who came out and supported us at all the book-launches, we are back at work organising our next venture!! Then I’m off to London to give a talk at the National Geographic Store about my 5 years in the Kalahari and my latest publication, ‘The Dark Side of the Kalahari.’
For those of you interested in Photographic Safaris, there is still space on the 14-18 November & 21-25 November. See you soon.

Good afternoon,

These are the dates for 4 photographic safaris in the Kalahari later this year. We will be staying at the new Ta Shebube Lodge www.tashebube.com in the Rooiputs area. We will concentrate on night photography as well as morning and late afternoon drives. ( Lots of fieldwork! )
This is just a short notice to show the dates. 4 – 5 people per safari. More info will be posted on my website over the next week.

Accommodation at Ta Shebube. R500.00 P/Night extra for single Room.
All transfers within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
All meals, tea and coffee.
SAN Parks Conservation Fees.
All game viewing activities in an open game viewer.
Photographic Tutorage
Nightdrives
Photographic time spent with special guest facilitator Hannes Lochner
3 gamedrives per day, morning, afternoon, and night.
Transfers available.

Dates:

7-11 November
14-18 November
21-25 November
28 November – 2 December

R 15 995.00 all incl.

Let us know if you are interested.
hannes@lochnerphoto.com

Good morning everyone, it’s almost time to send your purchased books off (for those that purchased the book at the discounted pre-sale offer) . They arrive next week, so you hopefully will have it before the end of the month. The international sales will take a week longer to arrive. Don’t forget to RSVP for the different launch dates. See below. Some of the venues will be confirmed by end next week.

ALL VENUES START AT 6 PM for 6.30 PM!

2 August – Groot Constantia Wine Farm – capacity 120 people
3 August – Bellville – Oude Welgemoed restaurant – capacity 100 people
6 August – Hout Bay Yaught Club – Informal Slideshow – capacity 100 people
7 August – Worcester (Damas Restaurant) – FULLY BOOKED
8 August – Stellenbosch, Longridge Wine Farm – capacity 100 people
12 August – Jacobs Bay Hotel, Weskusplek – capacity 40 people
13 August – St Stephens Church Hall, Pinelands – capacity 100 people
14 August – The barn at Cairnbrogie – Knysna/Plettenberg Bay – capacity 80 people
20 August – Johannesburg (Landrover Showroom, Centurion)
21 August – OutdoorPhotoShop/Pretoria (By invitation only)
23 August – OutdoorPhotoShop/Pretoria – capacity 50 people
24 August – Nelspruit (venue to be confirmed)
12 September – Upington – Orange River Wine Cellars – capacity 100 people
14 September – Windhoek (venue to be confirmed)
15 September – Swakopmund (venue to be confirmed)

SOON AVAILABLE: The Dark Side of the Kalahari available as ipad app from September:

“The addition of an iPad application to Hannes’ new book “The Dark Side of the Kalahari” makes this artwork even more special.
Modern technologies add extra dimensions which are not possible in print. They give you deeper insight in the story behind the story and take you behind the scenes of the creation of the book.
The crispness of the iPad display makes the color and detail of the photos stand out magnificently.
Short videos made by professional wildlife filmmaker Noa Köfler are setting a number of photos alive by giving a glimpse into what happened before or after the decisive moment. Also a number of short films by Noa give you a glimpse behind the camera and lift a corner of the veil of a photographer’s life in the Kalahari. As the life partner of Hannes, Noa has an intimate insight which only closeness can produce.
The application also provides more detailed information about each photo in a simple to access and clear way. Exposure, lens use, location, etc are presented in an easy overview when requested and, when an internet connection is available to the iPad, the location where the photos were made can be shown on a map. Where available extra information about the scene’s subject can be consulted on wikipedia.
The application also presents another two hundred unpublished photos taken during the Dark Side project as well as several slide shows.

Two points which really touched me are the introduction text read aloud by it’s writer Ian McCallum as well as the video short showing a day in the life of Hannes in the Kalahari. This last video gave me goose bumps.”

Good Luck with this first!
Etienne en Anne-Marie Bruwer