Ute Sonnenberg's Blog
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
- Essentials 3: Connect with the
Light
June 19, 2013 11:29AM - Essentials 2: Work with the
Focus Points
June 18, 2013 07:05AM - Essentials 1: Photography is
Physical
June 17, 2013 04:14AM - ePhoto Book: Where the Wind
Blows
June 16, 2013 12:52AM - On Photo Safari: Game Drives
June 15, 2013 01:11AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Hi Libby, this is a
female Kudu. They are very
beautiful
:-)”
June 18, 2013 11:41AM - “Thank you James
:-)”
June 18, 2013 07:06AM - “Thank you, that is a
good thought. Yes, when we get
older we
think twice before
d…”
June 17, 2013 02:20PM - “Thank you J.P.
:-)”
June 14, 2013 04:16PM - “Thank you Libby :-) you
are right :-)”
June 14, 2013 04:15PM
Ute Sonnenberg's Links
Essentials 3: Connect with the Light

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 det… Read full post »
Essentials 2: Work with the Focus Points

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 prac… Read full post »
Essentials 1: Photography is Physical

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 involves… Read full post »
ePhoto Book: Where the Wind Blows

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 epho… Read full post »
On Photo Safari: Game Drives

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 are… Read full post »
How to Win from Yourself

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 ph… Read full post »
Photographing Desert

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 exciting… Read full post »
Do Boring Nature Photographs Exist?

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 photographic… Read full post »
What makes Wildlife Photography Special?

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 going… Read full post »
How to Avoid Last Minute Stress

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 very… Read full post »
ePhoto Book: Up Close

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 »
On Photo Safari: An Impressive Experience

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 of… Read full post »
How Good are You with Birds?

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 at… Read full post »
Do You Collaborate with Painters?

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 paint… Read full post »
How to Photograph Mating Animals

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 do… Read full post »
How Patient are You?

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 is… Read full post »
ePhoto Book: Samburu, Home of Enkai

There is a magical place in the north of Kenya, for those who wish… Read full post »
On Photo Safari: The Path of an Animal

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 »
Wedding Photographer on Safari?

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 get… Read full post »
Wildlife Photography Destination Sabi Sand

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 gem… Read full post »
High Res. Images for Social Media?

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 images… Read full post »
With Point-and-Shoot Camera on Safari?

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 go… Read full post »
How Flexible is the Canon 200-400mm lens?

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 of… Read full post »
ePhoto Book: Dream Okavango

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 of… Read full post »
Does Adobe Think of Wildlife Photographers?

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 a… Read full post »
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