Etosha Vista, northern Namibia

This shot was taken on a Canon EOS 3000 using Ektachrome EOS 3000

Slide film. It shows a classic afternoon shot of the Etosha pan with

assorted wilflife. I'd love comments on this one.

Cory:  I like the pink clouds and the hot desert look.    I guess from the Ektachrome.  The single deer (springbok?) on the right against the edge  should have had more breathing room.  The bush on the bottom right seems blurry, but that could be the scanner.  In any case, I would suggest cropping out on the right to the left of the big bush towards the top and beneath the deer.  The picture also has vignetting on both the right and left sides and the sky has vertical streaks, all I suppose from the scanner or film processing.  If you had intended the vignetting, it should be done in a way that's not obvious. There's a "hot" spot probably from dust just above the tree in the middle that could be spotted out.  Nice shot.  Wish I was there!  Alan.

Cory,   I am sure you see this as a keeper and the wonderful wildlife capture that it is.  Yes, we'd all like to have the chance to take a shot like this in the wild.  If you were in a moving vehicle, the difficulty of the shot gets multiplied.  You can always clone out the animal partially in the image at right.  For the fun of it, I reduced the vibrance some in the foreground. I think the result highlights the animals and trees more - at the expense of a little saturation.  Thanks for sharing your great adventure.   Larry

Cheers Larry, thanks for the comment.  The trip was some ago and I can't recall whether or not the vehicle was moving when it was shot.  The blurriness in the foreground was actually caused by me in Lightroom 3 when I was trying to give the picture more dimension with clarity in the middle and black witha blur in the front.  I acheived good results (I  think) using such a method on my Oryx pciture in this portfolio.  I also used selective blurring in the black and white shot of the Walia Ibex in the Black and White section of my portfolio.  I like the effect when used on that shot, but this time around it didn't seem to work.

At the time of my trip to Sub-Saharan Africa I didn't have a digital camera and was without the priceless ability to shoot and review pictures on the move.  This of course made everything a guessing game.  When I finally had the money to go digital I believe the Canon 60D as a good choice and I put it a great deal of money for better than usual optics.  I can't belive I waited so long to go in that direction, but I'm quite happy and discovering new technqiues and tips almost every day from feedback on this site.  Thanks again for putting the time in de-saturising the shot.  It looks great and very close to the reality of Etosha Park.

I advise anyone going to any region of Africa that offers safaris, or just has parks to take advantage of what is offered.  Nothing can prepare you for it; it's absolutely breathtaking.  We only spent 3 days in the park (which is the size of Holland) camping out in the fenced waterhole areas.  There's something to say for waking up at 4 AM to watch a male bull Elephant in a stand-off with five male giraffes over turf.

I've been to Africa twice and seen many countries there.  Other place are currently on my list, but Africa, I am sure, will pop back up in the future.  A truly amazing land and a photographer's dream.