Category: Digital photography
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Masai Mara – from behind
Taking a good photo is not always east. But with animals, it becomes daringly difficult if the model decided not to cooperate. In a 1000 photos taken during the course of the safari in the Masai Mara National Park in March, there were a few interesting failures or good photos (depending on your taste). The…
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Contextual advertisment for safaris?
I just noticed (on my own web site) a contextual ad from Google that seemed quite well targeted. Titled “Wildebeest migration” (gnus migration), it promotes a Tanzania safari en Tanzanie in June-July for this great moment of Nature: 15 millions gnus and 3 millions zebras simultaneously leave Tanzania to go back to Kenya. Big show!…
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Masai Mara – Leopard
The most difficult part of this safari, the leopard was tough to find, nearly impossible to photograph (several days without a single observation before driving more than ten kilometers to find one single animal, but a nice animal indeed!) Leopard
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Masai Mara – Elephants
This year (2006), we find a lot of elephants in the Masai Mara National Park. Most of the specialists say that this comes from the drought that led these big mammals to group in relatively protected areas. Female elephant Elephant and impala Elephant and impala (Dumbo is free for real!)
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Masai Mara – Grey heron
Grey Heron, Mara river
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Masai Mara – Lions
Lions are everywhere in the plains of the Masai Mara. You bump into them after every tree. Generally, they are sleeping in the shade (their days are spread between 1% hunting, 1% eating and 98% sleeping after eating or before hunting). My best images follow… Big males The king of the animals, Simba (in Swahili),…
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Bag contents for my photo safari (follow up)
After the first article written just before I left for the Masai Mara photo safari, it was time to check on those comments and to see if they still held after the test of practical experience.
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Sony D-SLR, don’t hold your breath!
The comments reported by PhotoReporter.com are really worrying for the future of the existing Digital Single Lens Reflex (D-SLR) Konica-Minolta line. It appears that Sony thinks that they should move from the existing KM products toward a more Sony RD1-type of cameras. It seems to announce replacement of mechanical parts by electronic solutions (you can…
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Masai Mara – Birds, too
The Masai Mara park hosts not only felines (I went there specially to watch them) and their preys (all kinds of antelopes), but also a large number of birds of all kinds. Travelling with Alain Saunier, reknowned ornithologist photographer, and with some other bird watchers allowed to stop and contemplate some very colourful (or less…