Busy!

The last few days have been pretty busy but at least things are still all heading in the right direction.

I was looking for an image to go with the title of this post and, after a very quick search, this is the best I could find.  Not as artistically subtle as I might have hoped for but I guess you can get ‘busy’ from the image.   The image shows a game drive vehicle behind a massive swarm of Red Billed Queleas flying over the dam.   Even though these little birds are considered a pest they make for very impressive photo opportunities!

Was going to do a post on cropping your wildlife images but will be bumping this by a few days.  Tonight after game drive I will be driving through to JHB.  The main reason is to collect a few friends visiting from far away.  Australia and Japan to be exact.  Cannot wait to spend some time, catch up and take some pics with Steve.  Other than that I have to go and collect a few urgent maintenance related items for the lodge.  Yeah… it never stops!!  Oh, also picking up a new lens but a whole lot more on this soon.  Nice…

Tomorrow being Thursday, Morkel Erasmus will be doing a guest post on shooting Africa in HDR.  HDR is a very interesting topic as people either love it or hate it and it takes a great deal of insight and focus to create images that pop but still look natural.  By looking at the images that Morkel has included in his post I reckon he has nailed it.  Since receiving his article I have also played around with a few HDR image, something I have not done for a while, and whatever you think of it, it is still great fun and can give you a whole new way of creating and thinking about your images.   Make sure to join him tomorrow for ‘Southern Africa in HDR’.

In the meantime make sure to also go and check out all the new images that have been uploaded to the Photo-Africa Stock Library.  Gavin Tonkinson and Grant Marcus have been very busy and have uploaded more than 60 new images between them.  Some fantastic African wildlife images!  Click here to go and check it out.

Oh yeah, one more thing.  One of my older images has been selected in the Top 10 of Getawaty Magazine’s ‘Into the Wild’ competition.  Up until 14 December you can vote for the image so if you are on Facebook visit this link, become a Fan of Getaway Magazine and click on Like below my image!  Thanks!  

For now back to making lists, phoning, fixing and planning for my Joburg trip and then off on game drive.  The sightings this week has been fantastic and I have a lot of images to ‘play’ with during the next few weeks.  So remember to join Morkel tomorrow and I will be back on Friday.

See ya soon.

Gerry