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p.1 #1 · Elephants and antelopes

Elephants and a variety of antelope from the Katavi National Park and the Serengeti in Tanzania. Comments and critiques always appreciated!!
-- Susan

#1 Elephant parade

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#2 Klipspringer

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#3 Elephants touching

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#4 Eland (thanks Chris, Norm S and Ben for correcting the initial misidentification!)

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#5 Oribi female

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#6 Trunks and legs

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#7 Pair of klipspringers

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#8 Baby dik-dik

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#9 Gazelle

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#10 One ticked off elephant and one onlooker

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#11 Pals

Edited by suemcc on Jan 18, 2008 at 06:52 AM GMT (Reason: Correct mid-ID)

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Jan 17, 2008 at 05:00 AM

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p.1 #2 · Elephants and antelopes

Nice collection of images.

Jan 17, 2008 at 05:12 AM

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p.1 #3 · Elephants and antelopes

Another great series.Love the composition of the first photo. I also like the BW conversions of elephant pictures. On my monitor elephant pictures appear to be little darker and recovering some shadow details in PP may have enhance the picture. Just my humble opinion.
I am enjoying all your Africa pictures and keep posting more.
Harsha

Jan 17, 2008 at 05:18 AM

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p.1 #4 · Elephants and antelopes

Lovely! I love number 6....I like the framing of this one

I must agree that the B&W ones slightly dark on my monitor.

Jan 17, 2008 at 07:38 AM

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p.1 #5 · Elephants and antelopes

Hi Sue, I am always impressed by your wonderful images, you have a great eye for moments and composition

Jan 17, 2008 at 12:28 PM

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p.1 #6 · Elephants and antelopes

Susan, I really like these, especially the B&W elephants, and I appreciate the klipspringers because I know how shy they can be. Regarding #4, I may be wrong, but those look like eland and not roan antelope to me, although it's hard to be certain with just the silhouettes. But I think roan have curved horns.

You keep posting these pictures and making me anxious for my next Africa trip!

Chris
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Jan 17, 2008 at 12:56 PM

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p.1 #7 · Elephants and antelopes

Beautiful shots Sue, and I like how you've cropped them for each composition. You might want to put a "frisky" warning on the elephants touching shot

Jan 17, 2008 at 01:37 PM

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p.1 #8 · Elephants and antelopes

Susan -
Always an enjoyable viewing to see what exotic locale you are photographing at. It's also nice that you throw in "interpretive" shots/crop like #3 (Touching) to go along with the more traditional framing of shots.
- Ken

Jan 17, 2008 at 03:36 PM

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p.1 #9 · Elephants and antelopes

Susan,

Very nice series. I agree with Chris that the 2 labled as Raon are, in fact, female eland. the hump, the shape of the horns, and the tuft on the chest are characteristic of eland.

Norm S.

Jan 17, 2008 at 04:04 PM

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p.1 #10 · Elephants and antelopes

Very nice collection of beautiful images, Susan. # 3 and 8 are my favorites.
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Jan 17, 2008 at 08:49 PM

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p.1 #11 · Elephants and antelopes

Always look forward to your Africa posts Susan, wopnderfull comps. on these, I may not ever get to Africa, but your the next best choice. Verno

Jan 18, 2008 at 02:03 AM

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p.1 #12 · Elephants and antelopes

Very entertaining. Thanks for sharing.
Jon

Jan 18, 2008 at 02:06 AM

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Sue,

Great series. I'm usually not a fan of B&W, but these look excellent.

Wes N.

Jan 18, 2008 at 02:59 AM

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p.1 #14 · Elephants and antelopes

Really love the intimacy of the elephant shots-

Steve

Jan 18, 2008 at 03:01 AM

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p.1 #15 · Elephants and antelopes

Susan, the touching elephants is by far, my favorite - love this one!

Jan 18, 2008 at 05:14 AM

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p.1 #16 · Elephants and antelopes

excellent collection. I am very hardpressed to name 1 shot as a favorite as every one is very exceptional! Brilliant

Jan 18, 2008 at 05:17 AM

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p.1 #17 · Elephants and antelopes

Very beautiful work Sue, you never fail to impress. You really captured the intimacy (and anger - #10) of the animals. I think "Parade" and "Touching" are my favorites. Excellent work.

Scott

Jan 18, 2008 at 05:48 AM

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p.1 #18 · Elephants and antelopes

Beautiful shots. You're amazing. Congratulations - very inspiring

Lil

Jan 18, 2008 at 07:13 AM

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p.1 #19 · Elephants and antelopes

Susan, as always, stunning. I think the antelope in nr 4 are Eland and not Roan antelope.

Ben.

Jan 18, 2008 at 11:50 AM

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p.1 #20 · Elephants and antelopes

Sue...
You keep building my enthusiasm for my summer trip! I love #10... the larger elephant really has a unique look going their! Elephants and black and white.... nothing beats that!...

great work again,
bruce

Jan 18, 2008 at 12:06 PM

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p.1 #21 · Elephants and antelopes

hnilsson wrote:
Nice collection of images.

Thank you!!
Susan

Jan 18, 2008 at 02:53 PM

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p.1 #22 · Elephants and antelopes

harshaj1 wrote:
Another great series.Love the composition of the first photo. I also like the BW conversions of elephant pictures. On my monitor elephant pictures appear to be little darker and recovering some shadow details in PP may have enhance the picture. Just my humble opinion.
I am enjoying all your Africa pictures and keep posting more.
Harsha

Thanks Harsha! They do look darker on my monitor at work (uncalibrated) than at home - I'll re-calibrate my home monitor and look again at the B&W images - I really appreciate critical feedback so special thanks for that!!
Susan

Jan 18, 2008 at 02:55 PM

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pareet wrote:
Lovely! I love number 6....I like the framing of this one

I must agree that the B&W ones slightly dark on my monitor.

Thanks Pareet! I'm going to look again at the B&W after re-calibrating my monitor (see above), thx for the feedback - much appreciated

Susan

Jan 18, 2008 at 02:57 PM

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photonutt wrote:
Hi Sue, I am always impressed by your wonderful images, you have a great eye for moments and composition

Thanks Dave!

Susan

Jan 18, 2008 at 02:57 PM

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Chris Willis wrote:
Susan, I really like these, especially the B&W elephants, and I appreciate the klipspringers because I know how shy they can be. Regarding #4, I may be wrong, but those look like eland and not roan antelope to me, although it's hard to be certain with just the silhouettes. But I think roan have curved horns.

You keep posting these pictures and making me anxious for my next Africa trip!

Chris
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Thanks Chris - and right you are about the ID, which is now corrected. You know what's odd, we must have only seen eland at near-dark - I don't remember seeing them in the day at all. Anyway, thanks for the comments and special thanks for noting the klipspringer shots! That was my first time seeing these guys and I thought they were really neat - such funny thick hair, and so nimble on the rocks. Can't wait to see what you bring home from your next trip!
Susan

Jan 18, 2008 at 03:00 PM


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