Long Wait A mother carries her child as they queue up for a vaccine jab outside a health clinic in Antananarivo.
       
     
Madagascar / Antananarivo's Fabled Streets
White Browed Owl A rare inhabitant of thorny woodland, his white eyebrows give him a particularly distinguished appearance.
       
     
Madagascar / Zombitsi's Dry Forests
Amused Travellers A family stops for a welcome drink and a few photographs. Heads peep over one another as everybody tries to steal a glance at the camera without venturing too close.
       
     
Madagascar / The Long Road Home
The Village Computer After a week of working the fields, there's nothing better than a weekend in town. Wear your best attire, grab a beer and listen to music being played on the computer. Then boogie the night away in a dance hall.
       
     
Madagascar / Malagasy Life
Lemur in the Sky with Diamonds A wonderfully padded ring-tailed lemur's foot dangles from a branch.
       
     
Madagascar / The Valleys of Isalo
Mafana's Laugh This young girl was playing catch with her younger brothers. I loved the spontaneous laugh she broke into when I tried to take her photograph. That missing tooth is priceless.
       
     
Madagascar / A Village in the Hills
Mialy A young girl looks towards a field were her father and uncles continue to work as the sun sets on this rural farming village in Madagascar's central highlands.
       
     
Madagascar / Anja's Dusty Tracks
Rusty Rainforests Leaves glisten in the morning light. A clearing in the trees allows the magpie robin's song to filter onto our jungle trail from the cloud-covered shadows beneath. 
       
     
Madagascar / Ranomafana Rainforest
Nicolette and Baby Fausa A young girl looks after her baby sister while supper cooks in the clay home behind her. Women in rural Madagascar traditionally fill domestic roles.
       
     
Madagascar / Clay Homes and Simple Games
Bursting with Life Ranomafana’s undergrowth teems with life, evident by the shrill calls of hundreds of bird species and the sound of lemurs chasing one another in the trees. Frogs and insects create an equally loud cacophony at ground level.
       
     
Madagascar / A Blend of Landscapes and People
Marie The soft clucking of her chicken provides some source of comfort for this young girl, so very shy of the camera.
       
     
Madagascar / Rural Madagascar
Luc Boys often begin work from an early age and school enrollment in Madagascar is noticeably low. We found Luc cutting forest hardwood for a local timber business.
       
     
Madagascar / Ambositra
       
     
Madagascar / Wildlife in Central Madagascar
Red Panther Like most species of chameleons, the panther chameleon is very territorial. It spends the majority of its life in isolation, apart from mating sessions. When two males come into contact, they will change color and inflate their bodies
       
     
Madagascar / Rainforest Residents
Hanging On The rainforests and deciduous scrub that make up a lemur’s natural habitat are under siege from deforestation brought about by the logging industry and oil exploration. Their survival may be as temporary as this lemur’s clutch on a str
       
     
Madagascar / Life in the Trees
Tomato Frog Frown This little guy was NOT amused by the whole camera in his face situation.
       
     
Madagascar / Eastern Madagascar
Muddy Reflections The crimson barks of young trees are reflected in the tepid muddy waters of a lake below. The valley was teeming with insect and reptilian life.
       
     
Madagascar / Wetlands and Canyons
Welcome to our Market People busy themselves with selling, bartering and buying on the dusty tracks of a well trodden market square.
       
     
Madagascar / The Colourful Northern Coast
Cold Stare There is nothing quite as fascinating as the swiveling conical eye of a chameleon. This is an Oustalet’s chameleon.
       
     
Madagascar / Tsingy, a Thorny Woodland
Valerie This young girl sells bananas on the edge of a main road in the north of Madagascar. Street vendors and market hawkers are common throughout the island.
       
     
Madagascar / Monte D'Ambre Reserve
       
     
Madagascar / La Plage La Nuit
All Aboard! Families shuffle into line, waiting to board the steam ferry that will take them across the choppy sea between Madagascar’s mainland and the little island of Nosy Kombe.
       
     
Madagascar / Nosy Kombe
Samira Annabelle’s sister sold coconuts and mother of pearl at a bamboo stall overlooking a turquoise mountain lake in the very heart of Nosy Be island.
       
     
Madagascar / Nosy Be
Annabelle Waiting half way up the trunk of a fig tree gives one a better vantage point to spot your siblings as they return to a favorite spot for play.
       
     
Madagascar / People and Places in Black and White
They're Up to Something Is it the gossip of the day, or are these ring-tailed lemurs planning an elaborate robbery? We have so much to learn about these fascinating primates.
       
     
Madagascar / The Natural World in Black and White
Notebook: The Golden Sifaka Golden Sifakas were often the most boisterous species we came across. Strictly arboreal, they are at their happiest high in the canopies.
       
     
Madagascar / Madagascar Notebook