Chobe Silhouette

Gallery: WildlifePosted February 15, 2012185 views8 comments

A young Elephant bull silhouetted against the warm setting sun while crossing from an island to mainland on the banks of the mighty Chobe River in Botswana.

EOS 5D MKII - 600mm - 1/6400 sec @ f6.3 - ISO 100

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Mark Deibert on February 15, 2012 at 9:12 AM

Wow, this is a beautiful capture! Great silhouette, beautiful glowing bg colors, the elephant takes up just the right amount of room in the photo. I particularly love the droplets of water dripping from its trunk! Wish there was a large version. Wonderful!

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Comment posted by Tonia Graves on February 15, 2012 at 10:20 PM

Nice silhouette! I like the position of the trunk.

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on February 16, 2012 at 12:39 AM

Excellent silhouette Mario

I really like the rim light on the raised trunk and the sparkling stuff in the background.

Ken Archer

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Comment posted by Anand Narayanan on February 16, 2012 at 1:52 AM

Gorgeous

Looks like a crocs eye view

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Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on February 16, 2012 at 12:28 PM

This is very nice Mario. I would only have preferred to see a bit more room on top, including the top of the trees on the riverbank and a bit more. That, IMO would have perfected this.

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Comment posted by Brad Hill on February 17, 2012 at 9:34 AM

HI Mario,

Nice colour and contrast (I like the fully black silhouette) and both tusk and trunk position are pretty much perfect. I'm flipping coins about what I think about the "sparkles" on the water behind the trunk - thinking this moment is that they add to the image (not detract from it).

But...you had no control over them anyway!

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on February 17, 2012 at 6:55 PM

Nicely compelling capture!

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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on February 18, 2012 at 7:51 AM

I like the pose very much. After visiting the image, couple of times, IMHO I feel that it would have got better, had you gone for a wider perspective.
Jagdeep Rajput

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