Chacma Baboon

Gallery: WildlifePosted July 16, 201498 views10 comments

Here's another image from our Chobe, Botswana trip last year. This was taken from the ground level bunker hide. The elephants came in quite late this evening making photography of them difficult but we had some nice consolation prizes including this baboon. Cropped to vertical.

Canon 5D3 500F4 1/640 F5, iso 800

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10 comments

Comment posted by Max Waugh on July 16, 2014 at 7:09 PM

Nice pose, warm tones and a great background. Digging the low angle. Nice work, Nate.

Max

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on July 16, 2014 at 7:48 PM

This works so well in a vertical format! No nits.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on July 17, 2014 at 2:47 AM

Nate,
An underground hide in Chobe, whatever next?

Where is it?

Great image, I like baboons

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on July 17, 2014 at 7:43 AM

Baboons just scare the bajeebas out of me. They just look evil. Great capture of this evil little dude. The low level puts this over the top.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on July 17, 2014 at 8:55 AM

Thanks everyone, Ken the bunker is at one of the lodges outside of town, we don't stay there and I can't remember the name.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on July 17, 2014 at 9:50 AM

Nate,

Thanks for that I have since found it, I presume you went there with Pangolin?

Did you use there vehicle as well, it seemed way up from the ground when we saw it last year

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on July 17, 2014 at 11:31 AM

Nicely isolated in the frame and a great POV Nate.
Like the head turn & tail-up pose, sharp!

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on July 18, 2014 at 10:08 AM

The low angle works very well here, Nate. I sure do like all the detail in the fur and how the entire baboon is sharp.

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on July 19, 2014 at 6:35 PM

Excellent isolation of this baboon, Nate. Well done overall!

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on July 22, 2014 at 10:13 PM

Really like the low angle form the blind Nate. Very pleasing clean image and like everything as posted. nice work!

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