Staff Gallery

Graham Cooke is a private guide at Djuma Game Reserve and regularly contributes to this gallery. Click here to read more about Graham

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On the 30th of this month, our guests were very blessed in seeing one of the more rare sightings. A lioness was spotted up a tree, where a few hyenas had cornered her. ... Graham Cooke took this series of photographs.

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Graham Cooke is a private guide at Djuma Game Reserve and regularly contributes to this gallery. Click here to read more on Graham

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Julie Kearns from the UK was a volunteer at Bush Lodge during the first quarter of 2006, she took some great photographs, here is a selection.

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Julie Kearns from the UK was a volunteer at Bush Lodge during the first quarter of 2006, she took some great photographs, here are two lovely sunsets.

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A female Cheetah and her four cubs using an elevated vantage point to scan for potential prey.

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These photos are of a leopard kill which happened just before Christmas. The male leopard, Newington (Pink Nose) waited all night outside of a warthog burrow. When the female pig finally ran out, quite late in the morning, the leopard caught her.

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More great pictures from Helen Rohrs, Djuma's Virtual Game Ranger. She has the ability to catch the most incredible moments on film, as these and other photographs in this Gallery attest to.

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Graham Cooke made this lovely photograph of a male leopard in front of Vuyatela Lodge. Click on the thumbnail for a larger image.

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Helen Rohrs made this almost sinister series of photographs at a buffalo killed by lions. The hyenas and vultures were squabbling over the last few scraps.

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Warren Pieterse, maintenance manager at Vuyatela Lodge, sneaked up to these elephants swimming in Vuyatela dam and made these lovely photographs.

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More stunning images from Helen Rohrs.

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Here's some pics of the Stix pride cubs. These are the three older ones. There is also one younger cub with them these days. -Helen.

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These are photos of a male and female cheetah, we believe to be mother and son. We saw them frequently until Christmas, but haven't seen them since. -Helen

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Leopards in Love!

Helen Rohrs

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Some agitated elephants decide to chase two buffaloes having a mud bath just where these elephants want to drink.

Helen Rohrs

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Warren Pieterse is Maintenance Manager at Vuyatela and recently had an opportunity to make this photograph of a leopard yawning.

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Rebecca - 5 years old - is the younger Moolman daughter. She drew the picture above of guests watching a giraffe.

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Helen Rohrs has joined the Djuma Team as Virtual Game Ranger (yes, there is such a thing!). She operates the live cam on the safari game drives, every morning and every evening. You can visit the live cams by clicking this link.

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Here are some more photographs taken by Brigitte Modl. She has now gone back to her native Austria, we wish her the best in her future.

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Brigitte Modl joined the Djuma team early 2003 as a volunteer. Here are some pictures she took during her tenure.

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Graham Cooke - to read more about him click here - captured this remarkable interaction between a male leopard and a mother cheetah protecting her two cubs.

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Chris Stamper, a guide at Djuma Game Reserve, has submitted photographs before and has kindly allowed us to see some more of his collection. There are thirty odd photographs spread over four pages, including a series showing a leopard killing an impala.

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Pieter Pretorius is a guide at Djuma Game Reserve and has the wildlife photographer's "eye" for the perfect moment. This photograph of a young male leopard clearly illustrates Pieter's talent.

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The drawing above is my older daughter's "Safari guests with lion"!

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Jimmy Hurlimann is a Guide at Djuma Game Reserve's Bush Lodge. The photographs above he took during the first half of 2002.

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Tristan Taylor joined the Djuma team as a volunteer last year. He has now gone back to Australia, but sent us these excellent photographs.

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Chris Stamper is a guide at Vuyatela and he made these exciting photographs during the course of his duties.

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Djuma Game Reserve's reigning soccer champions.

Steve Bailey, guide at Djuma Game Reserve

David Southwood

Helen Goldman