An Africa series - Botswana, December 2005

[birdstrike]

A few of the shots I liked:

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9 (Only one with a flash...)

10

 

[russrom]

Awesome. #6 and #9 are great!

 

[woodsac]

It's great to see these animals in a realistic environment, as opposed to how most of us are forced to shoot them...behind bars or wire.

 

[Andie]

Those are AWESOME! And to get to see those animals in their natural habitat.. what a rush! Very nice pics, all of them!

 

[Tantalus]

Wow, they are real nice, I like 4, 5, 9 and 10.

 

[surfingfireman]

Damn you are one lucky chap. I went to Kenya 15 years ago. The only two animals I was dying to see where: a leopard and a wild dog (not hyena). I saw piles of animals but didn't see either of them. You on the other hand, not only saw them, but got great pictures of them. Lucky, lucky, lucky....

 

[ClarkKent]

Awesome series

 

[SpaceNut]

This series is awesome & inspiring! I like 'em all! Did you sign on for a safari trip or were there for some other reason (such as a job)? Either way, you are very lucky!! Wish I could go on a trip like that.

 

[Antarctican]

Heyyy, nice series!!! You have some really good shots there!! My faves are 1, 4, 7 and 10. Thanks for posting these.

 

[W.Smith]

Very nice, birdstrike.
But they could be a lot better if you did some post processing. Auto levels comes to mind.

 

[birdstrike]

This series is awesome & inspiring! I like 'em all! Did you sign on for a safari trip or were there for some other reason (such as a job)?

Thank you, thank you. It would be great if someone could pay me to do this, but it is all vacation time and personal expense. I had 200K British Airways miles to blow and business class to Botswana seemed the best way to do it.

I liked it so much that I'm planning a repeat trip for July 2008. This time I should have enough miles to do the entire trip in First

 

[birdstrike]

Very nice, birdstrike.
But they could be a lot better if you did some post processing. Auto levels comes to mind.

Thanks W. I've just started playing with Adobe Lightroom. I'll use these as test cases.

 

[Scooter]

I agree with all the above comments. This is an awesome series. I can only imagine what Africa is like so thank you for sharing your photos. A real treat.

 

[mitake]

That one with a flash ruins everything... Without it they look so cute...

Wonderful pictures! Thanks for sharing.

 

[birdstrike]

That one with a flash ruins everything... Without it they look so cute...

#9 and #10 are the same animal. Down there they call Impala "Fast Food". Thy even have an "M" on their backside that looks like a McDonalds logo.