Travel With Wild Africa

Erna Muller

Currently, I am a freelance wildlife photographer living in the rural town of Porterville, Western Cape in Southern Africa. In 1987, I completed my degree in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch; only later in life did the photography bug bite me, and I have never looked back. Africa and its wildlife is my passion, and I have been to several African countries to take photographs of our great continent and its wildlife and nature.

I have exhibited at Sanlam Art Gallery, Clanwilliam Kunshuis, and done several exhibitions over the years at the Pure Porterville Art Festival and other venues in Africa. My work has been published in wildlife books (The Spiral Horns of Southern Africa, The Eland) by author Peter Flack. Several outdoor magazines, and in 2019, I had a centre-spread photograph of an airplane taken in the canola fields of Porterville, which also became Photo of the Year in the magazine African Pilot, October 2019.

I have also done aerial photography for some wine farms (Winkelshoek Kelder), combining it with aerial landscapes, and taken part in aerial counting and photographing of great white sharks off the Mosselbay coast, photographing game capture for relocation from a helicopter. Several of my photographs have been painted by artists Anneke Smuts and Jaap Korfman.

My passion for Africa and all nature is lived out in my photography and to show how wonderful life is from another perspective through nature. I am also a member of PSSA and Tafelberg Photographic Club and have been a committee member several times. I hope that everyone who sees my photographs would enjoy looking at our magnificent wildlife in Africa as much as I did taking the photos.

In 2015 I started a travel company,  TRAVEL WITH WILDAFRICA and currently does tours with mainly tourists from the Netherlands, and other countries in Europe.  The main countries of visit are South Africa’s National Parks, Botswana, Namibia.

I also have a company WILDAFRICACAPTURED PHOTOS,  that is mainly to have a platform for my wildlife photographs and E Books, and a store with African Natural Products.

Recently I have branched out to doing local area tours over a weekend, for Porterville and Velddrif.  These tours cater for the discerning traveller from the city that want to breakaway for a weekend in the Platteland and experience local cuisine and culture, and some nice adventures.