Six things we wish more people knew before buying — from two photographers who've watched beautiful prints end up on the wrong walls. By Mariska & Nerise · Safari Susters Here's what we've learned - applied to any fine art print purchase, not just ours. Scale to the wall, not the room The single most common mistake people make when buying art is buying it too small. A print that looks impressively sized in a gallery shrinks dramatically when it goes home on a large wall. The

A guide to what a serious wildlife photography tour in the Okavango actually looks like — and why it's nothing like a standard game drive. By Mariska & Nerise · Safari Susters Most people who come on safari in Botswana have the same experience: a 4x4, a guide, binoculars, and a checklist of animals they hope to see. That experience is wonderful. We've had it ourselves. But there's another way to move through the bush, a slower, more deliberate, more deeply attentive way. An

Edition sizes. Archival paper. What a signature actually means. A plain-language guide from two photographers who print their own work. By Mariska & Nerise · Safari Susters The market for wildlife photography prints has grown significantly over the past decade. More photographers are printing their own work. More collectors are looking for pieces that mean something. And more buyers are asking, quite reasonably: what am I actually paying for? This is our attempt to answer th

You know the feeling. You're standing in a gift shop at O.R. Tambo, surrounded by mass-produced wire animals and fridge magnets, thinking: there has to be something better than this. There is. But it doesn't come in a plastic wrapper. The best Africa gifts aren't souvenirs. They're not things that gather dust on a shelf or fade after a season. They're pieces that carry weight, the kind that make someone stop in the middle of their morning routine and remember why this contine