The Royal Geographical Society – Singapore, presents five-time Wildlife Photographer of the Year honouree: Paul McKenzie - "Wild Encounters Around the Globe".

Multi award-winning photographer Paul Mckenzie tells the story of some of his fascinating adventures as a photographer. In the talk, Paul presents some of his famous photographs from around the globe.

His talk is part natural history, part conservation and part photographic tips - but mostly it focuses on the extraordinary adventures and stories behind the taking of the photos.

Images featured include ones from East and South West Africa, including the Great Rift Valley and the Serengeti. Paul is an expert on the flamingos of East Africa’s Great Rift Valley and has the world’s largest collection of high quality, aerial images of the soda lake environments and their charismatic avian residents. In the Mara/Serengeti ecosystem in East Africa, which he has been visiting every year for the past 23 years, he highlights the extraordinary density of game, the high levels of predation and the range of animal behaviour, for which he has won many awards for his photography.

He also shows the beautiful seas around French Polynesia. In colder climes, he shows the Falkland Islands, Antarctica, and South Georgia Island.

There are also some of his other favourite locations, including the Seychelles, Midway Atoll, home to more than two million seabirds, Indonesia, China and Hong Kong.



About Paul Mckenzie

Paul was born in Kenya but has been a HK resident for over 50 years. He read economics and geography at Trinity College, Dublin and worked in the finance industry in Hong Kong as an equity research analyst. Paul began photographing as a teenager but his passion was ignited in the early 1990s. In 1997, he photographed his first safari in East Africa and since then has travelled extensively to almost all remote corners of the globe to photograph wildlife.

Paul’s focus is on capturing animal behaviour and in showing animals within the context of their environments. Today he is a photographer whose images have been published widely and used by such corporations as Microsoft, Patagonia, Viacom, Discovery Channel and the World Wildlife Fund. He is a five-time Wildlife Photographer of the Year and a six-time Nature’s Best honouree, the world’s two most prestigious wildlife photographic competitions.