laurencewahlberg

Very interesting image, why so red? also seems slightly out of focus but good image.

Brilliant, great lighting and composition, just how it should be 7/7

crit or rate

crit or rate

Very good, comp, light, DoF all excellent 7/7

Thanks for comments, yes quite a poisonous snake, neurotoxic I believe so after being bitten all nervous system related functions just shut down. Interestingly it fell out of the tree moments after taking this shot and landed next to me, but luckily was more afraid of me than I of it, so made its escape safely to the undergrowth.

Not many origional water feature shots, but this is ine of them

good light for this shot, grass distracting, so takes away from the aesthetics, did you shoot this with film or digital?

This shot taken from approx 7m away

Crit or rate

Another 7/7, you dont need me to tell you, but you really are good man! The clarity of the features is out of this world

Hi Dave

In answer to some of your questions. I was a guide at a Game Reserve in South Africa at a Private Lodge called Mala Mala. AT the time I was there 1999 and 2001 there were approximately 42 habituated leopards (and lots of other wildlife) which had been exposed to well controlled landrover based game drives for a period of 30 years. The results of this are that (in all the animals habitating the property [15 000 ha] at any given time) one could literally bump into a leopard strolling down the road and carrying on with its natural behaviour. In other words they had reached the stage where the vehicles became part of their surroundings potentially not disturbing them either positively or negatively (although this is a debatable point). In effect all one has to do is habituate one female leopard to a vehicle and her cubs grow up with exposure to vehicles and themselves become habituated. Obviously this has to be done in a very controlled fashion as leopards are by nature secretive animals. Anyway the results are close encounters with these beautiful creatures and subsequently the ability to photograph them in the wild, going about their average day of hunting, sleeping, playing, mating etc straight from the vehicle using a relatively small magnification lens and a bean-bag for stabilisation. At the time I was working there I could not afford a very good camera so made do with and EOS 50E. As concerns your second question, I am quite happy to send you prints if you pay for the cost incurred in printing,and postage, at no extra cost. Send me an email with your details, but please be aware that I am still working in remote areas so it will be sometime before I get to a city like Johannesburg where I can have prints made from my slides. Cheers. Laurence

F*&^?X me thats a good photo, you are a brilliant photographer as evidenced by your portfolio, really impressed 7/7.

Cute factor, 10

crit or rate

crit or rate

Nothing but great photos from you Vezon, excellent to see and aspire to.

Not the most origional but works for me 6/6

crit or rate

Thanks for comments, will try get hold of neat image, as with most of my images, scanned with an A4 scanner so definition lost in process. Thanks for ratings, but whoever rated this a 2 for origionality is obviously a moron, unless they believe that lion cubs climb into the forks of acacia trees like birds roost in them !!!

crit or rate

crit or rate

Thanks for crits, definately good idea to take two spotlights, then can take two apprentices along with into the dark african bush to hold them. Sadly the logistics of getting photographs like this in areas where you are a guide and pandering to the whims of guests does not make it easy to have a nice happy little photographic picnic, so sadly one must make do and become absorbed by the fallacy of the large anteater

Grass in foreground, was what I was trying to capture, but so be it. Photo scanned with A4 scanner so not very clear, jammer. This pic taken whilst leaning out of a landrover with no door at ground level, so short of getting out the car and rolling on the ground ther was no option for change of perspective, Cheers.

I am no expert so constructive crit, focus is poor, the eyes of portrait animal shots always need to be clear, try focusing on the eyes when composing the shot (depending on camera)good composition as the animal is "looking into space although the square framing in this instance detracts from the composition. It would appear that you have cropped this image so maybe try cropping it again. The white on the right (actually left) side of the face is overexposed. I am no good at Photo shop but you can try selecting this area and reducing the saturation. Good luck