From an open-door helicopter over Botswana's Okavango Delta, this view explores the convergence of water and desert during the seasonal floods.

Drifting over Namibia's Namib Desert by hot air balloon, weeks after record rainfall, green grass briefly carpets the sands, a sight few ever see.

From a hot air balloon over the Naukluft Mountains near Sossusvlei, Namibia.

From a hot air balloon over the northern Serengeti, the Mara River leads past an acacia tree to another balloon drifting ahead on an early morning flight.

Flying low over Sossusvlei in Namibia's Namib Desert, the dunes below revealed ripple patterns pressed into the iron-stained sand by wind, millions of years in the making.