Okavango Delta Tapestries

Okavango Delta, Africa. Original Concept and great gift idea.

The Okavango Delta is an inland river delta in northern Botswana, Africa. It's the home of lions.

The Okavango Delta is an inland river delta in northern Botswana, Africa. It's the home of lions.

Young male African elephant expressing his surprise and displeasure at having his breakfast interrupted.

A hippopotamus keeping a watchful eye on the river safari tour group.

A leopard (Panthera pardus) licks its lips with its red tongue, in the Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana, southern Africa

The excitement and apprehension as a large male elephant starts wading towards the mokoros of the river safari tour group in the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

Polers with tourists in a traditional Mokoros on the waterways of the Okavango delta, Botswana, Africa. The traditional morkoro canoes are cut from trees which take 100 years to grow and they are unusable after 10 years. The practice now is to replace old canoes with plastic ones for a more sustainable environment.

Waterways across the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Africa, from the air. The vast expanses of this amazing inland delta spread out on the canvas of the earth from the viewing advantage of a small plane. The water takes 6 months or so to come down from Angola; it spreads out across the delta and then seeps into the ground supplying water to underground aquifers. Ths huge area is in the Kalahari Desert, but for most of the year its green and its water belies that fact. (Featured in Wild Africa & Other Groups.)

A majestic elephant watches us pass in the bush of Botswana

A Cheetah sits on a rock as the fiery African sun sets behind in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, southern Africa

A beautiful female cheetah sits on a rock with the African sun setting behind her in the Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana, southern Africa

Glorious sunset in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

In the Okavango Delta area of Botswana, Africa, an elephant herd (Loxodonta africana) stops for a drink and spots our vehicle! Better leave. They were protecting their young.

A leopard (Panthera pardus) lapping water from a waterhole, Sandibe Camp, by the Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana, southern Africa

Greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) with pair of red-billed oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorhynchus), Okavango Delta, Botswana

A small group of curious zebras, called a zeal, attentively studying the morning game drive tour group in the Okavango Delta in Botswana

A magnificent female leopard (Panthera pardus) prowls through long grass in the Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, part of the Kalahari, southern Africa

An African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) stands in savannah wetlands backed by palm trees facing the camera extending its ears in the Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango Delta in the Kalahari, Botswana, southern Africa

An African Bush Elephant contentedly feeds in a shallow river in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, southern Africa, with its trunk in its mouth

The importance of a Game Reserve or National Park such as the Serengeti, Mana Pools, Mala Mala, Okavango Delta, Lower Zambezi, Moremi, South Luangwa, Ngorongoro Crater, Sabi Sand, Masai Mara, Kruger cannot be overstated for conservation & protection.

A leafless tree silhouetted against a spectacular colourful African sunset in the Okavango Delta, northern Botswana, southern Africa

Two African bush elephants peacefully stand together in shallow water as the sun sets with a fiery red sky and orange afterglow, Okavango Delta, Botswana, southern Africa

Adult bull (male) African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) feeding, eating grass with his trunk in the Okavango Delta, north-west Botswana

A landscape that exists and travels through time at its own rhythm. Termite mounds a thousand years old anchor the landscape.

The importance of a Game Reserve or National Park such as the Serengeti, Mana Pools, Mala Mala, Okavango Delta, Lower Zambezi, Moremi, South Luangwa, Ngorongoro Crater, Sabi Sand, Masai Mara, Kruger cannot be overstated for conservation & protection.

The importance of a Game Reserve or National Park such as the Serengeti, Mana Pools, Mala Mala, Okavango Delta, Lower Zambezi, Moremi, South Luangwa, Ngorongoro Crater, Sabi Sand, Masai Mara, Kruger cannot be overstated for conservation & protection.

The importance of a Game Reserve or National Park such as the Serengeti, Mana Pools, Mala Mala, Okavango Delta, Lower Zambezi, Moremi, South Luangwa, Ngorongoro Crater, Sabi Sand, Masai Mara, Kruger cannot be overstated for conservation & protection.

The importance of a Game Reserve or National Park such as the Serengeti, Mana Pools, Mala Mala, Okavango Delta, Lower Zambezi, Moremi, South Luangwa, Ngorongoro Crater, Sabi Sand, Masai Mara, Kruger cannot be overstated for conservation & protection.

A morning greeting from a local Bull Elephant at Kadizora Camp in the Okavango Delta in Botswana

Dead tree silhouetted against a spectacular African sunset, Okavango Delta, northern Botswana, southern Africa

*Best viewed large* The Okavango Delta, Botswana, Africa. This body of water is the largest inland delta in the world, and one of the wildest parts of Southern Africa. Many of the animals inhabiting this region have never had human contact and thus, are as carnal as they come. That's a comforting thought, when you are spending two nights bush camping among this habitat lol! No toilets, showers or indoor areas, aside from our tents. At night time all was silent, apart from the calls of elephants, hyenas, jackals, and what I thought was a train moving in the distance.. turned out to be a pride of lions roaring after they had killed their dinner. By mid afternoon the temperature reached 48 degrees celcius (118F) on our first day....

Critically endangered African white-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) in silhouette perching on a leafless tree at sunset, in the Okavango Delta, northern Botswana, southern Africa

This was originally a photo I took in Botswana, at the Okavango Delta. It was the same sunset cruise that "Resplendency":http://www.redbubble.com/people/parmi/art/3298607-3-resplendency was taken at. This was a bit later in the evening, on the way back to our campsite. Thanks to my new found love of texture layering, I was able to transform this photo completely. Tweaking of colour balance and layering a rusted texture with it has given it a more painted look. To me, it epitomises my need to explore the world and discover as much as I can. Original texture from www.grungetextures.com !http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6196/6055725603_bd7d92f7de_m.jpg!:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Andrew-Parmis-Digital-Playground/356010744466...

False charge from a young bull elephant early in the morning on a game drive in the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

Two young bull elephants sparring in the Okavango Delta in Botswana