Comment posted by Floris van Breugel on January 6, 2011 at 2:23 AM
What a wonderful experience to see such a rare animal in the wild - and heartening to see a young one too!
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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on January 6, 2011 at 7:19 AM
Wonderful light, clarity and foreground and background colors.
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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on January 6, 2011 at 8:04 AM
Beautiful image! Love the savannah colors and the pair of rhinos. The calf's pose is an exact miniature replica of the mom!
Sandy
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Comment posted by Oscar Benavides on January 6, 2011 at 8:32 AM
The light is awesome. I love it.
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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on January 6, 2011 at 8:54 AM
Thumbs up for a really good capture!
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Comment posted by Brad Hill on January 6, 2011 at 10:20 AM
HI Kiran,
Very nice - beautiful lighting and a simple, clean, composition. You don't mention if this is a crop of full-frame, but if you have a little room above and below this image I'd suggest cropping out some of that out-of-focus foreground and adding a little more background (thus lowering the subjects somewhat in the frame and functionally "grounding" them a little more and also pulling them a little more out of the vertical "dead-centre" point).
Cheers...thanks for sharing this...
Brad
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Comment posted by Darren Colello on January 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM
Oh Kiran, What an absolute treat this is. We were fortunate to observe black rhinos in the crater as well and it was one of the greatest of experiences for me. This comp is wonderful. I love the warm tones, the habitat and of course mother and calf of such an endangered species. You should be very pleased with this. It is a real winner for me. Thanks for sharing.
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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on January 7, 2011 at 10:08 AM
Ditto, what Brad said.
Jagdeep Rajput
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Comment posted by Joe James on January 7, 2011 at 7:37 PM
Great shot Kiran! Two thumbs up on this one.
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Comment posted by kiran khanzode on January 7, 2011 at 10:06 PM
Thank you, all, for your comments and critique ! I did not want to include any more of the dull/dark background in the scene ( image is cropped a bit from the top). The sun came out for a brief moment splashing some light on the pair, and the greens lit up as well.
Took me an hour or longer to get them in this position and pose together like this :-). Most of the time, the calf was hiding behind mommy or they were either eating with the heads down or looking somewhere else.
I do appreciate everyone's thoughts here, Thanks !
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Comment posted by Ajit Huilgol on January 8, 2011 at 12:37 AM
Lovely to see this species, and an addition, too, in the form of the calf! It's a pity that we don't get to see black rhinos with horns 2 feet long like in the old images from the 50s and 60s, before they were almost hunted to extinction. I ditto Brad's comments regarding composition, though.
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Comment posted by Danny Laredo on January 8, 2011 at 5:04 AM
This is sweet Kiran. Must have been a great sighting.
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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on January 9, 2011 at 9:45 PM
What a beautiful photo Kiran.
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13 commentsSandy
Very nice - beautiful lighting and a simple, clean, composition. You don't mention if this is a crop of full-frame, but if you have a little room above and below this image I'd suggest cropping out some of that out-of-focus foreground and adding a little more background (thus lowering the subjects somewhat in the frame and functionally "grounding" them a little more and also pulling them a little more out of the vertical "dead-centre" point).
Cheers...thanks for sharing this...
Brad
Jagdeep Rajput
Took me an hour or longer to get them in this position and pose together like this :-). Most of the time, the calf was hiding behind mommy or they were either eating with the heads down or looking somewhere else.
I do appreciate everyone's thoughts here, Thanks !