Archive for the ‘Images of Nature’ Category
Wildlife Photography – Tell Your Story
Photography is about sharing the beauty of nature. About telling a story. The difficulty is to tell your story in one frame. How do you include everything in just one frame? Most of the time it is virtually impossible to tell the whole story in one single photograph. You will normally have to choose a [...]
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Check Your Photo Backgrounds
Finding a wildlife subject is one thing. The background you have behind it is a whole different story. All too often we get so stuck on finding a subject that we forget all about what’s behind it. I have had many times out in the field when we sat watching a sky, a reflection in [...]
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Wildlife Photography to View, Share and Enjoy – Part 2
Two weeks ago I posted Wildlife Photography to View, Share and Enjoy. The aim behind that post was to share the websites of various wildlife and nature photographers whose work I enjoy. With wildlife photography being something that should be shared, here goes with the second edition more websites of some amazing wildlife photographers. Andy [...]
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Daily Photo: When Simba Turned Black!
Black Lion Madikwe Game Reserve, 14 August 2010, 16h59 Nikon D300, Nikon 80-200 @200mm, 1/80, f/7.1, ISO 1600 __________________________ Yesterday I sat at a waterhole, with Andy Biggs and Grant Marcus, waiting for a pair of rhino to drink. A giraffe arrived and then we sat waiting for him to drink. Lots of waiting. All [...]
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Daily Photo: “Mystical” Buffalo Portrait
Buffalo Madikwe Game Reserve, 28 November 2009, 16h47 Nikon D300, Nikon 18-105 VR @100mm, 1/100, f/5.0, ISO 200 ___________________________ This image keeps on catching my eye. A while ago I did a black & white version of this image but I have always felt that it was a color image rather than monochrome. What made [...]
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WORKING THE LIGHT
Hello again everyone...I thought it was time for a new post since we're already a few days into August. My, how this year is just rocketing past!!Sometimes we find ourselves in that "sweet spot" for photography. You know - the golden morning/evening li...
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Wildlife Photography to View, Share and Enjoy
It’s Thursday and for the last 8 months, on a Thursday, I have been featuring guest bloggers sharing their images, experience and knowledge on Photo-Africa. Actually, it does not sound quite right saying I ‘featured’ them as all the guest bloggers I have had on this site are amazing photographers in their own right and [...]
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August 2010 Desktop Wallpapers!
Here are August’s free desktop wallpapers for your computer. The first two photographs were taken by me in Pilanesberg on my last trip there. [...]
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Intent, Patience…Luck!
Anybody can get lucky. Anybody can go out on safari and get a fantastic wildlife shot. This Black Rhino, which is a very special sighting, walked across the road right in front of us. All I had to do was pick up the camera and shoot away. It is a great reference shot but fantastic [...]
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When Gerry Met “Carnivorous” Warthogs!
Regardless of age or language, every child in the world knows Pumba. The Lion King immortalized the warthog as one of the favorite and most recognizable animals in Africa and no safari is complete without a sighting of these charismatic little animals. On a recent trip to the Pilanesberg I witness and photographed warthog behavior [...]
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