Ute Sonnenberg's Blog

Ute Sonnenberg

Ute Sonnenberg
Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
Birthday
May 29
Title
owner
Company
Roho Ya Chui
Bio
Welcome, my name is Ute Sonnenberg. I write this blog about photography and especially wildlife photography with the connected adventures on photographic safaris. I try to share my experience and knowledge about the subject to help people finding their way around in this complex matter and to inspire photographic adventures. The name of my company is Roho Ya Chui, Swahili for “soul of leopard”. We help people organizing their photographic safaris, wildlife photography courses and team building photographic safaris. Please feel free to ask any questions and please share your thoughts and feedback. Thank you for visiting and reading the blog. Thank you for your continus support. Kindest regards, Ute

MY RECENT POSTS

JUNE 19, 2013 11:29AM

Essentials 3: Connect with the Light

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There is plenty of photography advice available on the Internet including camera settings for several photography situations. Now people look up the settings and start photographing with it, wondering why only a few photographs are good and the rest is not. The answer is simple. The light detRead full post »

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One of the biggest disadvantages of photographing on automatic settings is, that the function “choice of focus point” is not available.

On wildlife photography courses, team building photographic safaris and photographic safaris working with the focus points is essential and pracRead full post »

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Taking photos on photographic safaris, team building photographic safaris, wildlife photography courses and any other occasions or trips require physical efforts of the photographer. Just standing there or even pressing a remote is not enough. Only by getting physically active really involvesRead full post »

JUNE 16, 2013 12:52AM

ePhoto Book: Where the Wind Blows

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Amboseli National Park in Kenya is a very popular destination for wildlife photography courses, photographic safaris and team building photographic safaris. It is a huge open space with often strong winds on the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro and it is the home to incredible wildlife.

Enjoy the ephoRead full post »

JUNE 15, 2013 1:11AM

On Photo Safari: Game Drives

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There is the wide spread idea that the people on the game drive vehicles during photographic safaris, wildlife photography courses and team building photographic safaris are doing nothing, just sitting there. And the guests themselves think the same and are completely surprised that they areRead full post »

JUNE 14, 2013 12:39AM

How to Win from Yourself

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Sometimes we got this inner voice saying, lets do it next time, lets wait or not now. This voice pops up in several situations and also in photography. A standard situation for it to start talking is on game drives during photographic safaris, wildlife photography courses and team building phRead full post »

JUNE 13, 2013 5:40PM

Photographing Desert

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Photographing the desert is the ultimate challenge to see where one can easily think there is nothing to see. Photographic safaris, wildlife photography courses and team building photographic safaris to these places are not surprisingly the most challenging and at the same time more excitingRead full post »

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What would be a boring nature photograph? Pouring rain in the Serengeti or blue sky over blue ocean?  I think essentially nature is never boring, we probably only fail sometimes to capture its beauty accordingly and then the image seems boring to the viewer.

Often guests on photographicRead full post »

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Anything is special as long as it is special to you. But with wildlife photography it seems that it is special to all. We all seem to have the need to be with nature, to connect and to be close to animals.

Especially when living in big cities goingRead full post »

JUNE 10, 2013 9:33AM

How to Avoid Last Minute Stress

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How do you experience being just in time before the boarding gate closes or quickly throwing your equipment in the bag before departure? Are these the circumstances you perform best? If you do, you will not feel stressed by it, but if you don’t you will most likely feel veryRead full post »

JUNE 9, 2013 3:35AM

ePhoto Book: Up Close

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These are the magical moments on photographic safaris, wildlife photography courses and team building photographic safaris when you are up close with incredible animals.

It’s like touching their souls.

Enjoy! View the ephoto book here.

 

Ute Sonnenberg for www.rohoyachui.com Read full post »

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Going on photographic safaris, wildlife photography courses and team building photographic safaris is not just going on a trip, it is something that leaves a deep impression on the guests.

Recently a lady guest from a wildlife photography course called to tell that she was with a group ofRead full post »

JUNE 7, 2013 4:31AM

How Good are You with Birds?

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Do you have a collection of empty branches in your photo file? Your are not alone.

On a regular basis the level of frustration during photographic safaris, wildlife photography courses and team building photographic safaris rises with the ambition to photograph birds. One moment they look atRead full post »

JUNE 5, 2013 3:25AM

Do You Collaborate with Painters?

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There are many talented wildlife painters out there, who don’t have the opportunity to go on photographic safaris, team building photography safaris or wildlife photography courses and they need images to paintRead full post »

JUNE 4, 2013 12:19PM

How to Photograph Mating Animals

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It is one of the highlights of photographic safaris, team building photographic safaris and wildlife photography courses to see mating lion or leopard. And fortunately when they are doing it they doRead full post »

JUNE 3, 2013 2:51AM

How Patient are You?

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It is generally said that wildlife photography is the kind of photography where the most patience is needed. And it is definitely true that patience is essential for wildlife photography. It isRead full post »

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There is a magical place in the north of Kenya, for those who wishRead full post »

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When people are going photographic safaris, wildlife photography courses and team building photographic safaris they get sometimes swept away in the excitement of the moment and tend to do not wise things.Read full post »

MAY 31, 2013 4:51AM

Wedding Photographer on Safari?

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Yes, you read right, there are wedding photographers on safari. There are not only people who go on honeymoon on photographic safari or wildlife photography course, there are also people who getRead full post »

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The Sabi Sand is a wildlife area bordering Kruger National Park in South Africa. It is named after it’s two rivers the Sabi and the Sand River. This area is the gemRead full post »

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There have been two major revamps recently of social media platforms and both go the same route, bigger images. Google+ and Flickr have changed their design and especially on Google+ the imagesRead full post »

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With all the talk about big cameras and big lenses for wildlife photography, photographic safaris, wildlife photography courses and team building photographic safaris one can easily feel intimidated and hesitating to goRead full post »

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Canon has just announced the new 200-400mm f/4 with built-in 1.4 extender for USD 11,799. With the extender switched on the lens goes from 280-560mm.

There are already plenty ofRead full post »

MAY 27, 2013 2:55AM

ePhoto Book: Dream Okavango

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One of the dream destinations of photographic safaris, wildlife photography courses and team building photographic safaris is the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

Join a female leopard in her dream ofRead full post »

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Adobe has recently announced that from CS7 its software will only be available as cloud service. This is not only a financial issue, but also and access issue.

As aRead full post »