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Charlie Shugart
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p.1 #1 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

As big and aggressive as Africa's buffalo are (males up to 2,000 lbs), they are a prey species because of lions. Consequently people and their vehicles present a possible threat to them, and they become very alert at our approach.
Shot with a hand-held 400mm lens using Kodachrome 64 film.


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Nov 06, 2012 at 08:41 PM

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p.1 #2 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Nice group Charlie! The first looks like he's got a bit of age on him.
Douglas

Nov 06, 2012 at 11:28 PM

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p.1 #3 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Were you buffaloed into taking these photos Charlie? Nice set.

Nov 07, 2012 at 01:07 AM

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p.1 #4 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Nice shots Charlie ~ Ron

Nov 07, 2012 at 02:42 AM

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p.1 #5 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Very nice Charlie. The second is my pick

Morris

Nov 07, 2012 at 03:05 AM

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p.1 #6 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Thanks Douglas, Ken, Ron and Morris.
Yeah, the first guy is big and chunky- so it might be an oldster.
I wasn't buffaloe'd into taking the pics, Ken

, but thanks for the terrible pun (it saves me from having to think of one

).
Charlie

Nov 07, 2012 at 05:39 AM

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p.1 #7 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Very nice set Charlie. I really like the last shot.

Birdie

Nov 07, 2012 at 05:55 AM

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p.1 #8 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

a lovely set Charlie ..

Nov 07, 2012 at 08:52 AM

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p.1 #9 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Very nice set Charlie - looks like they are about to set those egrets on you in the last

Nov 07, 2012 at 09:59 AM

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p.1 #10 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Thanks Birdie, Ken and Frog.
As alert as those egrets are to our van's presence, it makes me wonder if they don't serve as an early warning system for the Cape buffalo. A subtle symbiotic relationship.
Birds have great day vision, buffalo have great senses of smell, and they both have excellent hearing. Every little bit helps when there are hungry lions around.
Charlie

Nov 07, 2012 at 07:12 PM

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p.1 #11 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Very nice Charlie! I love seeing these brutes with birds on their backs. Just something ironic about that.

Tim

Nov 07, 2012 at 07:27 PM

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p.1 #12 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

nice film shots Charlie

Nov 07, 2012 at 07:54 PM

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p.1 #13 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Nice collection, Charlie.
I'm going for the ten eyes as well.

Chris

Nov 07, 2012 at 09:52 PM

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p.1 #14 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Haha! Cool

Nov 08, 2012 at 01:02 AM

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p.1 #15 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Accomplished hand holding Charlie, that lens have IS back then?

Tom

Nov 08, 2012 at 01:08 AM

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p.1 #16 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

Thanks Tim, Herb, Chris, Conrad and Tom.
No IS, Tom, and no autofocus. And I manually metered for exposure settings.
Much of the time I was shooting at 1/125 or 1/250 sec, with ISO 64 on a 400mm lens, but most of my shots came out okay. Some luck was involved for sure

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Charlie

Nov 08, 2012 at 11:14 PM

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p.1 #17 · Kenya- Cape buffalo. Ride 'em egrets!

wouldn't want to be too close, have to shuffle off to Buffalo

Nov 08, 2012 at 11:18 PM

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