Buffalo in Light
Madikwe Game Reserve
(Nikon D300, Nikon 18-105VR @ 100mm, 1/100, f/5.0, ISO 200)
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To many people they might look and act like cattle, but Buffalo is one of the most quintessentially African animals. For me they are also one of the more difficult of the larger mammals to photograph. Don’t know why. Just is. Perhaps a mental block of sort even though I can see the images I would like to take in my head. Two days ago we found a large herds pretty close to the road but in some serious thickets. Virtually zero photo opportunities. Then one female slowly kept on grazing out into the open and up to about 5 meters from the vehicle. As I was looking through the viewfinder it just suddenly fell in place. A stream of sunlight fell through the trees, our buffalo took a few steps forward and click. Even though I could see the image and colors light up when the sunlight hit the large animal’s horns I knew immediately that this was going to be a black and white image. Kept that vision going into the digital darkroom and, after a few contrast and sharpness adjustments, I finally came up with a buffalo image of my own that I quite like. Your thoughts?
More soon.
Gerry
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Hey, Gez !!!
I feel your pain with the buffalo photographing efforts, but this one works….
like the composition…
later
GAV
Thanks Gav!
Still waiting for that ‘one’ shot but this girl played along very nicely!!
G