Patience, practised.

Imogen spent nine years as a picture editor in London before moving to Nanyuki in 2013. She has spent eleven seasons in the Mara and knows most of its cats by their scars. Her teaching is about position: where the vehicle stops decides the photograph long before the shutter does.

She is the reason we turn the engine off, and the reason we sit still for ninety minutes when the light says so.

Born in Narok, Daniel guided in the Mara for nine years before a guest left him a camera. He now shoots for conservation charities across East Africa, and his portraits have hung at the Nairobi National Museum. He reads behaviour a minute ahead of everyone else in the vehicle.

Daniel runs our editing sessions. He is generous, precise and immune to the phrase "I'll fix it in post".

Sipho grew up in Mtubatuba, a few hours from Zimanga, and helped design two of the hides we use there. He is our birds-in-flight specialist and the person who will finally make your autofocus tracking settings make sense.

He keeps a notebook of sun angles for every hide and waterhole he works. It is, so far, never wrong.