THE FILE 30,000 35mm.

OVERVIEW All natural history and related topics, as well as scenics and habitats, historic and archaeological sites and objects, and agriculture in Africa for educational use in textbooks, travel guides, magazine articles, museum displays, etc.

NATURAL HISTORY Wildflowers of southern Africa, including desert and mountain. Succulents, especially aloes, lithops, stapeliads and other mimicry stone plants, euphorbias. Aquatic weeds, cycads, flowering trees, tropical orchids, Welwitschia. South African birds and their nests. Butterflies and other insects. Frogs. Large and small mammals. Reptiles including chameleons and crocodiles. Plant and wildlife camouflage and mimicry. Desert life. Ecology, landscapes, vegetation habitats and types. Coal, diamonds, gemstones, geology. Haboob (Sudan dust storm).

GENERAL STOCK Historic sites. Landscapes in southern Africa, Chad, Sudan (including Merowe pyramids), Yemen. Prehistoric rock paintings and engravings, Zimbabwe ruins, archaeology. Victoria and other waterfalls. Namib and Kalahari deserts. Okavango swamps. Peasant and tropical agriculture (including tea and coffee), irrigation (including shaduf), soil erosion and reclamation, desertification. Diamond and open-pit coal mining. Tribal life: Kalahari Bushmen, Lesotho, Zambezi Batonga. Sudan henna decoration, weddings. Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe tourist/travel destinations.

SPECIALTIES Black (Verreaux's) eagle, destructive quelea birds. Stapelias (bizarre fly-pollinated succulents). Carpets of spring flowers in Namaqualand (Cape, South Africa). African succulent desert plants and wildflowers. Namibia. Orchids.

GEOGRAPHIC AREAS Africa: Botswana, Chad, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa (Cape Province, Free State, Namaqualand, Natal, Transvaal), Sudan, Zimbabwe Yemen.

CREDITS Magazines: African Wildlife, Illustrated London News, Natural History, Silva. Books: Balkema, Brady, Britannica, Chanticleer, College Press, Hamlyn, Harrap, I.P.C., Knopf, Longman's, Macmillan, Random House, Reader's Digest, Silver Burdett, Strawberry Press, Struik, World & I. Author/Photographer: Wild Flowers of Zimbabwe (Longmans, 1975, 1990). Other: CD-ROM for Discovery Channel.

RELATED CREDENTIALS/SKILLS B.S., agriculture/soil conservation/ecology. Fellow, Cactus & Succulent Society of America. Award-winning film, Black Eagle Fly Free. Environmental impact studies for USAID/Sudan and Chad, government of Botswana, and World Bank/Zimbabwe. Close liaison with museum and other natural history specialists. Seven new species of flora and fauna named after contributing photographer Darrel Plowes, who has discovered many more.

COMMENTS Darrel Plowes is a retired agricultural director (Zimbabwe) with 50 years of African field experience. Close familiarity with all of southern Africa. Available for assignments, photo safaris, articles. "Best captions yet seen" -- Discovery Channel. Participant in Daybreak 2000 international photo shoot. Jpg scans available on request.