THE STORY OF SURVIVAL ON THE GREAT PLAINS OF MASAI MARA EAST AFRICA

This video includes short scenes of lions and cheetahs hunting in their natural habitat.
The story of survival on the great plains of East Africa. After six day's wildlife filming on Kenya's famous Masai Mara National Reserve I found that through my lens I had captured the story of survival. The so-called cradle of mankind is Africa, remains of our early ancestors discovered amongst their stone tools and simple art. It is remarkable to think that early humankind shared these vast grasslands, rivers and forests with spectacular concentrations of animals, foraging and hunting alongside predatory big cats and vast herds of grazing antelope.The struggle to survive is written across this landscape of life and death, reminders that our early ancestors lived and died here, steadily spreading across the globe. Today these grasslands are precious survivors from earlier ages, some of the biggest concentrations of wildlife to be seen anywhere in the world.

With thanks to Pete Cox and Fidel Ndegwa of Foxtrail Expeditions, Nakuru Kenya, staff at Basecamp Explorer, Talk River and @farandwildtravel

I'm Mick Grewcock, retired from business and now self-learning the art of film-making.

My subjects are many but centre on our English landscape and its wildlife and I often feature our own woodland - Our Corner of England.

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Panasonic GH5
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Sigma 18-35mm EF Art
Vintage Helios M44-2 58mm f2
Vintage SMC Takumar 135mm f3.5
Vintage SMC Takumar 200mm f4
M42 to M43 adaptors
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Viltrox Macro extension tubes
Variable ND filters
Canon G7X
GoPro Hero
GoPro Session 5
iPhone 14
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Koolertron 1M slider
Zhiyun Crane Plus
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Rode Video MicPro on-camera microphone
Rode SmartLav lavalier microphone
Zoom H1 field stereo audio recorder
Final Cut Pro X
MacBook Pro 15"
iMac 27"
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