Just back from a hectic and exhausting tour of Namibia. Another country and sights ticked off the bucket list.
Ossie
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Nice set, specially first and last. Wow!
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Very interesting landscape, Ossie.
The orange dunes and the solitary, gnarled, dry tree and the vlei make a fine art shot. Well done. : )
And, seeing the everyday life of the local guides and elephants take us to the heart of that land. Good to see some sort of organized team of locals showing around and owning up to their special land.
Thanks for sharing,
Yildiz
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Very interesting landscape, Ossie.
The orange dunes and the solitary, gnarled, dry tree and the vlei make a fine art shot. Well done. : )
And, seeing the everyday life of the local guides and elephants take us to the heart of that land. Good to see some sort of organized team of locals showing around and owning up to their special land.
Thanks for sharing,
Yildiz
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Dr Harout and Yildiz ,thank you for your comments
Three more from the trip
A little luck with this next shot catching the animal mid stride with feet off the ground. Ossie
Three more from the trip
A little luck with this next shot catching the animal mid stride with feet off the ground. Ossie
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All are just beautiful, Ossie.
Good timing in the first and second and good composition in the last. Very sculpturesque tree. A land with so many varieties of creatures and flora.
Yildiz
All are just beautiful, Ossie.
Good timing in the first and second and good composition in the last. Very sculpturesque tree. A land with so many varieties of creatures and flora.
Yildiz
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Very nice captures Ossie. Thanks for sharing.
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Excellent set(s) Ossie. A friend of mine mentioned that safari through the dunes of Namibia is
far more rewarding than the regular safaris. Any thoughts?
Sury
far more rewarding than the regular safaris. Any thoughts?
Sury
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Sury, DA and Birma Thank you for your comments.
It depends on what you are after. As far as I am concerned being interested in landscape and natural history photography I would not differentiate between the two.
The deserts provided plenty of opportunity for some great landscape photography, provided you had the time and could be on location at the most favourable times of the day. Wildlife was scarce.
The "regular" safari's provided opportunities for both but especially for the wildlife. I found it more fun to be on a 4 x4 being bounced around as we hurtled along rutted dirt roads, clouds of dust being thrown up behind us racing to see a Black Rhino. As you can see from this image we made it.
The Rhino had been dehorned to protect it from poachers. Apparently the horns will grow back.
Ossie
Surysury wrote:A friend of mine mentioned that safari through the dunes of Namibia is
far more rewarding than the regular safaris. Any thoughts?
It depends on what you are after. As far as I am concerned being interested in landscape and natural history photography I would not differentiate between the two.
The deserts provided plenty of opportunity for some great landscape photography, provided you had the time and could be on location at the most favourable times of the day. Wildlife was scarce.
The "regular" safari's provided opportunities for both but especially for the wildlife. I found it more fun to be on a 4 x4 being bounced around as we hurtled along rutted dirt roads, clouds of dust being thrown up behind us racing to see a Black Rhino. As you can see from this image we made it.
The Rhino had been dehorned to protect it from poachers. Apparently the horns will grow back.
Ossie
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Excellent set of shots. I hope to got there some day myself.
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Ossie,
Thank you for your observations. I agree with you. I was recently watching a show on Public Television (can't remember which program) and they were saying, the dehorning process is not helping in some cases. The poachers are killing the dehorned Rhinos so that they have fewer Rhinos to track for poaching thus minimizing their waste of time tracking the "useless for poaching" dehorned Rhinos. I hope what ever our efforts to save wild life from needless and greedy killing is successful. All wildlife in general and Rhinos and Elephants in particular.
Sury
Thank you for your observations. I agree with you. I was recently watching a show on Public Television (can't remember which program) and they were saying, the dehorning process is not helping in some cases. The poachers are killing the dehorned Rhinos so that they have fewer Rhinos to track for poaching thus minimizing their waste of time tracking the "useless for poaching" dehorned Rhinos. I hope what ever our efforts to save wild life from needless and greedy killing is successful. All wildlife in general and Rhinos and Elephants in particular.
Sury
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