Sunset drink

Gallery: WildlifePosted July 17, 2011172 views9 comments

The first post from my most recent trip - Thanks Vincent for showing me a great time in Botswana.
This was one of many elephant encounters, of which the best occured in the last two evenings at Chobe river. We more or less got stranded in the middle of the heard on both nights and literally had to race back (after they let us go) to the park gates in order to get out on time.

EOS 7D
EF-S 17-55 @ 55mm
iso 400
f/5.6
1/100 sec

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on July 17, 2011 at 3:22 PM

Serene. Nice comp of a fine, quiet evening. I like that all the land objects are in silhouette!

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Comment posted by Anand Narayanan on July 17, 2011 at 5:23 PM

Absolutely fantastic ! The light on the far shore is sublime

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on July 17, 2011 at 10:15 PM

a wall hanger for sure - I like the separation between the elephant and the horizon to allow some color to sneak in there and the colors are beautiful and natural looking.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on July 18, 2011 at 2:23 AM

Great mood and feeling with this one.
Namibia looks a long way away, I have never seen so much water in the river.

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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on July 18, 2011 at 8:12 AM

Great silhouette n beautiful colors !!!
Ideally, I would have preferred some more seperation between the Ele & the BG.
Jagdeep Rajput

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on July 18, 2011 at 11:26 AM

Arresting colors and silhouette. I agree with Jagdeep that is would have been better with a sliver of space between the top of the hips and the distant trees. Still, I think you placement of elephant and horizon is just right and this will look good on the wall!

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Comment posted by Johan Malmros on July 19, 2011 at 12:34 PM

Thanks for your comments.

It was a lot of water, unusually much as I've understood it. I think it hampered our game viewing in some areas but here it was just beautiful. As you say a little bit of free water all around the back of the elephant would have been better.

Registered on January 6, 2011, 20 Posts, 154 Comments

Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on July 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM

Hi Johan, this looks very familiar

, what a great evening this was! I hope you will decide to print this large!?
Cheers

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Comment posted by Johan Malmros on August 13, 2011 at 4:06 PM

It sure was Vincent.
I think I will post a couple of other candidates before I make up my mind about printing

Registered on January 6, 2011, 20 Posts, 154 Comments