My Frui Adventure

I love holidays and I love photography so imagine my joy when I discovered there was a travel company that combine the two, allow me to introduce you to Frui!  Before Frui I had never been on vacation alone, but I had always felt guilty when holidaying with friends or partners when I took myself off to photograph things and places they had no interest in but Frui is amazing for photographers as you are put together with a group of people with a shared passion, and you can shoot until your heart is content or memory cards are full (whichever comes first!)

My first Frui adventure was to Africa for a safari, it was their fist trip to South Africa and Botswana, their website has more details on the trip if you are interested click here!  I went on this trip for the purpose to shoot wildlife, and it really did not disappoint.  The safari gods must have favoured me, because minutes into our first game drive I met these beautiful lions basking in the morning sunrise.

I still need to figure out what I am going to do with the photos… I want to do a photo book as we captured so many animals!  The young male lion above was my favorite shot of the trip, I have printed it on to fine art paper, framed and hung it in my bedroom, it is the first and last thing I see every day 🙂

The bonus of going with an organised tour group like Frui is you get access to a professional photography tutor to help you with any photography questions,  it is not intense and doesn’t matter if you are a total beginner or professional, you are free to use the expert advice and lessons of the tutor as much or little as you want.

Personally I enjoyed the lessons as it gave me direction of what to shoot, but as you can see from my selection of images I have picked to share in this blog post, the wildlife was what stole the majority of my attention on the trip!

I took so many pictures on the trip, and still need to find time to edit most of them, which is great as I am still coming across gems I didn’t realise I had… my latest find is this group of elephants crossing the road whilst we drove back from a visit to the local village.  The original image was a lot darker and exposed to the sky so I had to adjust the levels to make the elephants more visible and pop, it was a magical moment that I am so glad I caught on camera.

I loved my Frui experience so much that I have actually booked to go on another trip with them to India in November, so watch out for my photos from that 🙂  In the mean time if you want to see more of the behind the scenes of what my African Frui adventure was like I saved my insta-stories in an album which can be viewed here!