Yes, it is 6 days before wheels up and the start of another wonderful photo safari into Tanzania. This Feb will bring a farily small but very focused group of photo safari enthusiasts to the wilds of Africa. At this point I always start checking weather and migration status realizing that the rains in the [...]
Category Archive for 'Africa'
Photo of the Week
Posted in Africa, Photo of the Week, Safari, Travel on Dec 20th, 2009
Nikon D300, 17-55mm @ 31mm, ISO 200, 1/200 sec @ f8
Photo of the Week
Posted in Africa, Photo of the Week, Travel on Nov 6th, 2009
Nikon D70, 12-24mm, December 2004 Petra is the treasure of ancient world, hidden behind an almost impenetrable barrier of rugged mountains, boasting incomparable scenes that make it the most majestic and imposing ancient site still-standing nowadays. Petra is considered the most famous and gorgeous site in Jordan located about 262 km south of Amman and [...]
Photo of the Week
Posted in Africa, Photo of the Week, Safari, Travel on Oct 25th, 2009
Nikon D300, 17-55 @ 17mm, ISO 200, f10 at 1/160 sec Deep in the sand dunes of Namibia, I was presented with a rolling light show of highlights and shadows as the sun rose from my left. With the camera having significantly less dynamic range than the human eye, it is always a challenge to [...]
Nikon D300, 17-55 @55mm; ISO 320, f 7.1 @ 1/640 sec
May 2009 – Nikon D300, 17-55 @17mm, ISO 200, f 10 at 1/250 sec Windy Ridge Sunset, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, looking toward the ocean.
Nikon D300, 70-200VR @130mm; ISO 400, F7.1 @ 1/320 sec Traveling through a river bed in Namibia inland from the Wilderness Safari Skeleton Coast campsite, three photographers grab the best seats in the house while taking in the wonderful scenery.
Photo of the Week
Posted in Africa, Photo of the Week, Safari, Travel on Sep 25th, 2009
May 2009, Nikon D300, 17-55mm f2.8@ 55, ISO 500, f11 at 1/50 sec, -1/2 EV Metered slightly below the horizon in spot metering mode As sunlight started across the distance mountain range, I hiked up a nearby rock outcroping some 500 feet above the valley floor to get this image. The clouds were simply spectactular [...]
Photo of the Week
Posted in Africa, Photo of the Week, Safari, Travel on Jul 11th, 2009
Nikon D300, 70-200VR, 95mm @ f9 1/640 sec, -2EV While shooting in the sand dunes of Namibia, I found myself in an environment that was largely reds and blues. After looking at the large histogram for general exposure, I always shifted to the RGB histograms for evaluation. More often than not, I found that I [...]
After a late night in Seattle visiting some friends that reside on Maui and were in town on the ship World, I found a message in my email stating that two out of my four submitted images had made it to the Semi-Final level of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition. These two [...]