Elephants silhouetted at a waterhole at sunset, Namibia — Nicolas Marincic

Themes

Wildlife

581 photos

Wildlife photography is, above all, a matter of waiting. You learn to make yourself forgotten, to read the light and the wind, to let the encounter come to you rather than force it. It may be a silhouette crossing an Alpine ridge in the cold of dawn, a herd drifting slowly towards a waterhole in Etosha, or a lemur studying you from the canopy of a Malagasy forest.

For those moments, the 100–500mm never leaves my side: it lets me keep my distance, respect the animal’s space, and still come close to a gaze, a gesture, a fragment of wild life. Each encounter is brief, unpredictable, and never quite repeats itself.

Highlights

My favourite images from this series.

Great barracuda along the reef wall, divers above, Belize — Nicolas MarincicAndean fox crossing the desert, Sud Lípez, Bolivia — Nicolas MarincicBoys’ football match as a pink river dolphin leaps, Solimões, Brazil — Nicolas MarincicMacaques grooming before a stone face of the Bayon, Cambodia — Nicolas MarincicGiant panda eating bamboo, Chengdu, China — Nicolas MarincicPharaoh eagle-owl in a carved niche, Egypt — Nicolas MarincicBlue-footed boobies courting, Isla de la Plata, Ecuador — Nicolas MarincicMediterranean moray swimming free, Medes Islands, Spain — Nicolas MarincicNorthern bald ibises, France — Nicolas MarincicSpotted eagle ray, Honduras — Nicolas MarincicMacaques fighting on the grass, Indonesia — Nicolas MarincicRed-billed streamertail in flight, the national bird, Jamaica — Nicolas MarincicElectric-blue Sinai agama, Jordan — Nicolas MarincicGolden eagle in flight over the steppe, Kyrgyzstan — Nicolas MarincicCoquerel’s sifaka nibbling a leaf, Madagascar — Nicolas MarincicWhale shark off Isla Mujeres, Mexico — Nicolas MarincicGreat white pelican spreading its wings, Namibia — Nicolas MarincicReindeer head and antlers on soft white, Norway — Nicolas MarincicPair of ribbon-tailed astrapias feeding, Papua — Nicolas MarincicNight monkeys on a branch near Iquitos, Peru — Nicolas MarincicPeacock in flight through branches, São Jorge Castle, Portugal — Nicolas MarincicManta ray passing overhead, Red Sea, Sudan — Nicolas MarincicMoose in a snowy forest, Sweden — Nicolas MarincicCat framed in a stone window, Mardin, Turkey — Nicolas MarincicHawksbill turtle on the Belize Barrier Reef, Belize — Nicolas MarincicHawksbill turtle among soft corals, Red Sea, Egypt — Nicolas MarincicPair of blue-footed boobies, Isla de la Plata, Ecuador — Nicolas MarincicFried-egg jellyfish, Medes Islands, Spain — Nicolas MarincicLeafcutter ants at work, France — Nicolas MarincicScarlet macaw, Honduras — Nicolas Marincic