An Africa series - Botswana, December 2005

birdstrike · Nov 7, 2006

A few of the shots I liked:

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9 (Only one with a flash...)

10

russrom · Nov 7, 2006

Awesome. #6 and #9 are great!

woodsac · Nov 7, 2006

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 · Nov 7, 2006

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

Tantalus · Nov 7, 2006

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

surfingfireman · Nov 9, 2006

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 · Nov 9, 2006

Awesome series

SpaceNut · Nov 9, 2006

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 · Nov 10, 2006

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

W.Smith · Nov 10, 2006

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

birdstrike · Nov 10, 2006

SpaceNut said:
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 · Nov 10, 2006

W.Smith said:
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 · Nov 10, 2006

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.