Dale R Morris is a multi award winning feature writer, photographer and specialist guide, with more than twenty years experience in the art of travel writing and visual story telling.
His works on wildlife, conservation and eco-travel have appeared in more than fifty magazine titles, including National Geographic and BBC Wildlife, and amounts to a body of work of more than 500 published articles.
He regularly guides tribal and wildlife focused photographic expeditions to the far flung corners of the world, including destinations such as Borneo, East Africa, South America, India, Madagascar and the Antarctic.
Photographic Highlights: Tree dwelling Indri; Diurnal Black-and-white Ruffed and Red-bellied lemurs and Diademed Sifaka; Giraffe-necked weevil; Spectacular birds including Pitta-like Ground Roller; “Dancing” Verreax’s Sifaka; Up-close Ring-tailed Lemur; Huge colonies of the Madagascan Flying Fox; Giant, Crested and Green-capped couas
Photographic Highlights: Tiger, Sloth Bear, Chital, Leopard, Indian Gazelle, Indian Peacock, Indian Rhinoceros, Indian Elephant, Water Buffalo, Tiger, Swamp and Hog Deer and a plethora of wetland and forest birds
Photographic Highlights: Bornean Orangutan, Bornean Pygmy Elephant, Proboscis Monkey, Red Leaf Monkey, Bornean Gibbon, Danum Valley rainforest at dawn, large and colourful rainforest hornbills
Photographic Highlights: Jaguar, Hyacinth Macaw, Jabiru, Greater Rhea, Bare-faced Curassow, Brazilian Tapir, Giant River Otter
Photographic Highlights: King, Southern Rockhopper & possibly Emperor Penguin, Northern and Southern Royal, Wandering & Light-mantled Albatross, Snowy Sheathbill, South Georgia Diving Petrel, Antarctic Prion, Grey-backed & Black-bellied Storm Petrel…
Photographic Highlights: Ethiopian Wolf, Mountain Nyala, Menelik’s Bushbuck, Gelada, Walia Ibex, numerous raptors, Surma tribe
Photographic Highlights: Red dune landscapes, Deadvlei and its clay pan bed and tree “skeletons”, Starscapes, various scorpions and lizards, Namaqua Chameleon, Flamingos, Great White Pelican, Cape Fur Seal, interesting rock formations and unique plants,Black Rhino, Lion, Spotted Hyena, Elephant, Oryx, Springbok, Common Ostrich, Greater Kudu and Black-faced Impala
ORYX Photographic Expeditions is a specialist photographic safari company offering wildlife and cultural photographic expeditions guided by several of the world’s top photographic tour leaders. ORYX’s photographic tours are planned and prepared by photographers for photographers. We explore the planet’s wildest and most scenic destinations as we focus on wildlife, nature, landscape and cultural photography.
Hi Dale
Wow. What a lovely surprise hearing from you.
I must say, I can see why you have won so many accolades. It was a lovely letter indeed.
The smorgasbord of photos just had us smiling the whole weekend. We thoroughly enjoyed everyone’s photos.
We are still very busy sorting through our photos, and choosing and editing the ones we like for our photo journals and photobooks.
Our very favourite images are already at the printers though, and we’ll probably be putting them onto our walls this weekend. I’m looking forward to that.
Some feedback from the trip. We had so much fun, and we do appreciate you guys going the extra mile to keep us together and getting us earlier out than the other groups. I also enjoyed our seating arrangements in the dining room with all of Oryx sitting together and us getting to know one another. I loved every moment of the trip and I am really glad that we were in such capable hands as yours.
We made some good friends, that I suspect will become lifelong friends.
We definitely would like to go with you to Madagascar in 2024. We were thinking of making an exclusive group of 6 people. Michael and I and our 2 girls, with Birger and Petra.
When is the best time to go?
We’ll send you some photos of our rooms when the prints are up.
Hope to be meeting you soon.
All our love and happy penguin memories.
Lizanne and Michael.
“Hi Marius
Currently overnighting in Paris on our way home from Madagascar. It was an excellent trip. We are thrilled with the images we are now in the midst of sorting. We got all of our targets and have some wonderful photos. It’s a tough place, but ORYX and especially Dale handled everything with aplomb.”
This was one of the greatest trips we have taken. The wild life was spectacular and I got better pictures than I ever have before, due to Dale’s teaching. I admit to being lazy and intimidated in the past and though I have excellent equipment, I never went beyond the programmed and automatic functions. Dale convinced me to start using other functions and to consider the subject from other angles and completely changed the way I will do things in the future. I learned a lot. Everything was well done and the house boat was especially wonderful; it was a 5-star experience with friendly people, wonderful food and skilled boat drivers. We will certainly recommend ORYX to all our friends.”
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