Room with A View

Gallery: LandscapePosted June 1, 201393 views6 comments

I am not generally a landscape photographer, although I would love to be better at it.
Yesterday I received a very surprising email from the new owners of Chilo Loge in Zimbabwe, this lodge has in my opinion, one of the greatest positions in Africa, and is now apparently re-opened and refurbished. It was OK to start with but if it has been improved then I cannot wait to get there.
This image was taken almost 4 years ago and is the view from the deck ouside our room, to the right is one of Africa's wildest game reserves Gonarezhou, directly below is the Runde river meandering its way towards
Mozambique.

EOS 1D MkIIn
28-300mm at 40mm
ISO 800.
F7.1
1/5000

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Lon Overacker on June 1, 2013 at 3:08 PM

Ken,

Not a bad view at all! I like that you used the tree to frame an otherwise uneventful sky and the narrow crop fits very well. Hey, are those elephants crossing the river? Little more visible in the larger view, but not sure.

Your image shows the region well - I can just imagine the wildlife in this area and how important the river is. Thanks for sharing.

Lon

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Comment posted by Bob&Charly Nelson on June 1, 2013 at 8:19 PM

I like the environment you have shown us Ken. Great vision.
Bob

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on June 2, 2013 at 2:55 AM

Thanks for your kind comments , they are much appreciated

Lon,
I think these are probably rocks as I remember this as roughly the place where you cross the river to get into the National Park, the water only came up to bonnet level

There are certainly plenty of Elephants there!

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Comment posted by John Clulow on June 2, 2013 at 3:27 PM

This has a number of great composition elements; the wonderful S-curve beginning in the front right and leading to a vanishing point at a rule-of-thirds position, the framing from the limb, and the yellow - blue and green - reddish color contrasts. Great depth feeling.

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Comment posted by Bill Reid on June 2, 2013 at 9:13 PM

Nice composition with the overhanging tree Ken. Looks like a vast area by this view. Very nice.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on June 3, 2013 at 2:13 AM

John and Bull,
Thanks very much for your comments

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