Kenyan Sunrise

This is a bit of a departure from me but I thought I would seek your feedback on this image from Kenya. I am certainly way out my "comfort" zone and any guidance would be appreciated.

It was taken early one morning when heading out in search of the six Cheetah cubs and when I left camp I had no intentions of stopping. Initially the colour of the sky caught my eye and then when a gap appeared in the trees and the Elephants appeared on the horizon, I decided that I had to stop and give it a go.

I think it loses something at 720pixels wide, especially as a pano.

There are more images from this years Kenya trip HERE

Canon 1DMK4, 500mm, f4, 1/1600, ISO400

Cheers

Austin

Different, and certainly away from the 'norm', in many ways Austin.

I think the crop works well, but still feel it needs a little off the rhs

TFS
Steve

Now this is special
Well planned and captured.

Geoff.

Stunning shot, love the colours, love the pano, superb

Beautiful and there is no 'norm' in wildlife photography, capture what you see Austin, go with your heart as you have here, beautiful shot. The only thing I would have done if I was in this postion at the time is I would have turned my camera and captured a portrait also giving a different take on the lovely photo- subjects bottom left,sun top right - you may have done . I am off there next year and cannot wait,if I get a moment like this then I'll count myself very lucky

Lovely Austin. Like this very much.

Thats pretty nice. Don't agree with cropping this on the rhs.

Ian

Like Stevo says, a little off the RHS Austin + perhaps a little tiny bit MORE at the bottom of the frame.

It would be great if you could move the hefalumps a little more to the right but keep the same frame aspect ratio.

Top notch high impact shot Austin that just needs a smidgen of re-composition

Thanks everyone. Your feedback is most appreciated and informative. I am glad that I didn't just pass this by in search of my "standard" style of image.

Cheers

Austin

Had a good think on this since seeing it, I dont think I like the pano crop, but having the elephants central, placing the sun about the RH 3rd, is nice.