The African sun

CarlosF · Oct 11, 2016

Hey guys, I took these photos at the pilansberg nature reserve which I'm lucky enough to live only 2 hours away... sadly we haven't had any rain for a long time and all the rivers and dams are either dry or running dry and the poor animals are taking a hard knock.. we followed this family of elephants for about 5km through the bush looking for water...

1:Hippo giving me the stare down

2: black backed jackel looking for some doves where it used to be a water hole

3: Elephants where so happy after walking all the way

4: Giraffe and in the background you can see how dry it really is all the way to the back was water at some stage

5: Zebras also came down for a drink

6: I need some water guys

Any CC welcome thanks

baturn · Oct 11, 2016

Great set!

weepete · Oct 11, 2016

Yup, cracking set.

ruifo · Oct 11, 2016

Beautiful shots. Keep sharing them. I like #3 and #5 a lot.
Sad water issues. Hope it'll rain soon.

goooner · Oct 11, 2016

Great set, in tough lighting conditions. I know it's not always easy, but try getting out at just before sunrise and sunset (or late afternoon). Looking at the shadows, it looks more like between 11am and 1pm (except for the hippo and giraffe which was probably a couple of hours earlier/later), with very harsh light.

Hope it rains soon!

jcdeboever · Oct 11, 2016

Wonderful set.

CarlosFrazao · Oct 12, 2016

baturn said:
Great set!

weepete said:
Yup, cracking set.

ruifo said:
Beautiful shots. Keep sharing them. I like #3 and #5 a lot.
Sad water issues. Hope it'll rain soon.

jcdeboever said:
Wonderful set.

Thanks a lot guys

CarlosFrazao · Oct 12, 2016

goooner said:
Great set, in tough lighting conditions. I know it's not always easy, but try getting out at just before sunrise and sunset (or late afternoon). Looking at the shadows, it looks more like between 11am and 1pm (except for the hippo and giraffe which was probably a couple of hours earlier/later), with very harsh light.

Hope it rains soon!

Hey bud yeah thats usually the plan, we only drove down for the day so with the nice morning light i drove in and really didn't see much worth taking pics of, yeah conditions where tough and dry which make it even harder for decent shots..

well some scientist guy on the radio said that we would have to have floods for the next 5 years to get us back on track again most dams are between 30-15% full at the moment and currently everyone has water restricitions, no washing of cars or water the garden or filling pools, people aren't listening so theres talk of them shutting off water supply to homes during certain periods of the day as well