Safari - Crocodile

One of the scariest sights to see are the crocodiles laying in wait ready to chomp into their victims and drag them under the water. Whenever you see a body of water you just need to start looking close and you will eventually see them. They are good at blending in and/or looking like logs floating in the water.

The above pictures were taken with a Nikon D90 at 300mm. The picture with the croc in the water was taken much later in the day at ISO 1600.

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The first picture with the croc on the reddish soil was taken in Kruger Park at the map location below

 

Panorama Photography

The above picture was created from two 35mm slides I took on a camping trip in 1977. The pictures were not ideal candidates for a photo merge and I had to create a right leg in the center of the picture to give it a little cleaner look. This picture is much more interesting than displaying the two pictures separately. It provides a better feeling of perspective of the camp by seeing a wider view.

I love panorama photography. Evidently that love goes back to my days of film movie cameras. I usually did a pan of the area I was filming. Even my earliest 35mm slides and negatives from the 70s sometimes have enough overlap that I can create a panorama from them (like I did in the above picture). Now that is looking into the future! At the beginning of June I started introducing some new post types (Night Photography, Car Photo, Safari, and On the Road). Not all that ingenious, just a post title that better helps describe the post. I don't always have a lot to say about a picture, and a good one can speak for itself.

So I have been on a kick this month coming up with various post types that I can use to share some of my pictures I take traveling about the town, state, country and world. So, here comes another post type Panorama. I will share my panorama photos in these posts and provide a little information about them. I use Photoshop to merge them, but I have used a couple of other products in the past. Photoshop does a great job so I use it exclusively now. I did a comparison on panorama creation and you can read it by following this link.

Although I am just now officially creating Panorama posts, I already have several posts that contain panorama pictures in them. Check out the Tags to look at all of the panorama pictures I have posted.

 

Car Photo – 1949 English Ford Anglia

Nikon D90 - ISO 500 - 1/125 - f/4.8 - 42mm

On The Road - National Highway 9

On The Road - National Highway 9

Nikon D90 - ISO 200 - f/6.3 - 1/160

I captured the above picture from the car window on my way to Abdullapurmet, India. Motorcycles are a common sight and often the families main transportation.

The background of the picture captures perfectly the visual appearance of old Hyderabad and the blue gray skies of the area.

The above photo details: Nikon D90 - ISO 200 - f/8 - 1/250 - 18mm Focal Length

Click on the pictures above to see a bigger version and more information about the photo. It's all about the journey.

 

On The Road Photography

During our travels we are usually in route from one place, to the next place we want to be. Photographs taken in route to our destinations can tells us much about the places we are visiting. Sometimes the pictures from our car windows or brief stops can be of more interest than our final destination! I have pictures from my trip to Disneyland like everyone else does, but what pictures do you have getting there? Checking out the area where you stop to get gas can be pretty interesting, or offer up to the viewers of your photography a different perspective than they had previously never seen.

The above picture was taken at the Caltex petrol station on the N4 in Highlands Rural, South Africa. With this post I am starting a series of photos taken while I was in route to a final destination. In the above picture we were headed to Kruger Park, South Africa.

It's all about the journey.

Safari - Vervet Monkey

Nikon D200 - ISO 3200 - f/7.1 - 135mm

We saw this sneaky Vervet Monkey at Nkuhlu Picnic site in Kruger Park, Mpumalanga, South Africa. From the tree tops he would watch over the picnic tables ready to bounce down to grab his favorite foods from unsuspecting diners. In a blink of an eye he grabbed the food and was back up in trees out of reach. Throughout the picnic site crying children were heardwanting their snacks back that this thief grabbed from their hands so quickly that the reaction to the theft came seconds later after the children realized their goodies were gone. It was actually pretty funny as long as you weren't the victim!