Photographer Will Burrard-Lucas had a change to be close to some of the most elusive animals in the world during the course of three months last year at Namibia's Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area.

In a blog post, Burrard-Lucas wrote that some of the animals had only earlier been clicked by research cameras before. In the post, he wrote about the project, he completed on assignment for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Burrard-Lucas told The Dodo, “My personal motivation for working on this project was that is was for a really worthwhile cause. To photograph animals who have probably never been photographed before and for these images to be used by WWF to help with their conservation efforts”.

Burrard-Lucas added that he had earlier spent 14 days in Namibia attempting to find and click carnivores such as lions, leopards, hyenas and African wild dogs, however wasn’t beneficial. But, he overcame the challenge by making the use of five Camtraptions camera trap systems, which, unlike study cameras, are equipped with a high-quality DSLR camera.

Finally, he got high-definition, natural, uncommon glimpses into the Zambezi area’s wildlife scene, without disturbing anything. The pictures have also given a rather closer look of a calm coexistence between species.

He said that one of the things that made the project quite unique for him was that such animals were so shy that he didn’t really see any of them with his own eyes. He mentioned that he wasn’t aware of what all he got trapped in his camera traps until he checked the memory cards.

In the blog post, Burrard-Lucas said that the lions proved to be the greatest challenge to capture. He explained that he fixed two camera traps across the waterholes where the lions visit at times. During the three-months-period his traps operated quite well, the lions crossed that two times resulting in some quite uncommon shots of such secretive big cats.