Juvenile Pale Chanting Goshawk Madikwe Game Reserve, 18 April 2010, 09h58 NIkon D300, Nidkon 80-200 @ 135mm, 1/2500, f/4, ISO 200 ___________________________ I love birding and but bird photography is a whole different ballgame. I have not done a lot of bird photography but every now and then an opportunity comes long just demands photographic [...]
Daily Photo: Wet Web
Wet Web Madikwe Game Reserve, 7 April 2010, 07h12 Nikon D300, Sigma 24-70 @ 70mm, 1/2500, f/2.8, ISO 200 ___________________________ Yeah, it’s a wet spiderweb. Shot this the morning after a rainstorm. With a very shallow depth of field and the web angling away from me just small section of the spiderweb was in focus. [...]
Daily Photo: Parenting
Parenting Madikwe Game Reserve, 4 April 2010, 18h03 Nikon D300, Nikon 80-200 @ 200mm, 1/320, f/2.8, ISO 800 ___________________________ Grabbed this shot a few evenings ago as a pride of lions walked down a road straight towards us. The five cubs were all over their mom which made for some very funny moments. She tried, [...]
Daily Photo: Seeing Double
Seeing Double Krugersdorp Game Reserve, 29 March 2010, 16h19 Nikon D300, Nikon 200-400 @ 400mm, 1/400, f/4, ISO 400 ___________________________ No funny stuff here. Overcast conditions, long focal length, large aperture, close to subject, click. If both squirrels were in focus the image would not have been as effective and would probably have come across [...]
Daily Photo: Grey Crowned Crane
Grey Crowned Crane Krugersdorp Game Reserve, 28 March 2010, 16h11 Nikon D300, Nikon 200-400 @ 270mm, 1/1000, f/4, ISO 400 ___________________________ The last two days have been fantastic from a photography point of view. I got the opportunity to shoot a number of subjects in very different surroundings to what I normally do and it [...]