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.
I have been on international photo tours with a number of organizations of which Oryx is by far the best in terms of interesting destinations, itineraries, excellent guides, and great back-office organization.
Dale Morris was very helpful with photography advice and personally interested in my efforts. I came away with improved skills and better photos. He was also very good at keeping the tours hassle free from the guest’s perspective, though I’m sure there was a lot going on behind the scenes.
The office staff were excellent and solved issues that arose promptly.
Peter Flatt
I very much enjoyed my time on the 2022 Pantanal photo tour as I had when I was on the one in 2017. Both times Dale Morris was our guide and photo expert. As always, Dale was a gem, and he was clearly happy and enthusiastic to be leading a tour after many months of COVID lockdown. I must add that the tour was made particularly enjoyable and educational with the participation of Sergio Freitas, PhD (Dale’s local assistant) who served as an excellent and affable Brazilian language/logistics facilitator and fauna biology expert.
We had plenty of wildlife photo opportunities, and all the lodge accommodations were very good.
Our time on the Jacare – our boat hotel – was very pleasant.
Our ‘Jaguar tracking’ boat driver was highly skilled both on our sprints and in holding steady while maximizing our photographic opportunities. To sum up, my friend Alison and I very much enjoyed the 2022 Pantanal tour. It was well planned and conducted with successful innovations adapted to the weather.
I have not counted up the number of separate species that I photographed and videoed, but there were a lot. I did get lots of good shots and video clips of my favorites – giant otters, a loping giant anteater, jaguars, and even two pairs of long-legged seriemas in a loud, pre-dawn territorial battle.
I’ve been on about a dozen photo tours and this was definitely one of the best-organized and best-led trips. Especially impressive given the challenges of the location.
Dale did an amazing job dealing with both the expected / inherent difficulties and I’d gladly travel with him again!
I traveled with Oryx (Dale Morris as trip leader) to the Omo Valley of Ethiopia. The trip was exciting, rewarding, educational, and fun! While traveling to this remote and challenging area could be difficult and taxing, Dale, Oryx, and the local team made it all smooth and simple. Having warm showers, clean beds (nice cots!), and hot, fresh-cooked meals in the outskirts of nowhere is quite an accomplishment, yet the made it seem easy.
Dale is a great person, with an incredible sense of humor – dry and British most of the time, but warm and caring as well. He’s also quite a good photographer, always willing to help, provide some recommendations on technique or composition, or just hold an off-camera flash as a human light stand 🙂 I’d happily travel with him again; in fact have two more trips planned.
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