p.1 #1 · Kenya: Nairobi NP, Maasai Mara NR, and Ripoi Conservancy
Congratulations to Abuttolph for winning Feature Thread of the Week with 3 votes - View Previous Winners
Here are a few more images from my recent trip to east Africa. These images were shot in Nairobi National Park, Maasai Mara National Reserve, and Ripoi Conservancy. In addition to the usual animals, I was fortunate to see servals in three locations (including Serengeti National Park but I did not get good photos during that sighting) and a few images of them are included in this group of shots.
p.1 #6 · Kenya: Nairobi NP, Maasai Mara NR, and Ripoi Conservancy
Wow, I keep thinking I've seen the best wildlife images I'm going to see, and then someone like you post images like these. I started trying to pick favorites and gave up. The longer I study each image, the more I see that I like -- every one is a winner.
I can't imaging how many images you had to cull to get down to your 'keepers'.
This collection gets my vote.
p.1 #9 · Kenya: Nairobi NP, Maasai Mara NR, and Ripoi Conservancy
morris wrote:
Super images Adele.
Morris
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Erictator wrote:
The dead pan stare in 3 is my fave, yet the crock take down is hard to pass up. All excellent!
Eric
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dclark wrote:
Superb collection of images!
It's rare to get Serval shots but you got three winners.
Voted.
Dave
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Bobg657 wrote:
Adele, wonderful images! It is amazing you got the serval shots, especially with the mouse!
YGMV,
Bob
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gmccroskery wrote:
Wow, I keep thinking I've seen the best wildlife images I'm going to see, and then someone like you post images like these. I started trying to pick favorites and gave up. The longer I study each image, the more I see that I like -- every one is a winner.
I can't imaging how many images you had to cull to get down to your 'keepers'.
This collection gets my vote.
Greg
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kdacharya wrote:
beautifully done, Adele. voted.
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Lil Judd wrote:
Stunning set of shots
Gave you my vote Adele
Lil
Thanks so much everyone for such positive feedback on the images.
I indeed felt very fortunate to have been able to see and photography the servals. In Nairobi National Park, I watched the mother serval hunt a rat, trot quite a long way to take it to her kittens, then give it to her kittens to play with. Then in the Maasai Mara, I saw two kittens, and then one more serval in the Serengeti. To be honest, these are cats that I thought that I would never see in my life, so this many of them was something very special.
On the number of images, I am not sure how many I have, but in terms of size ended up with 2 TB of images. A lot of that was because I was not very measured in using continuous shooting during the first part of the trip, but did a lot better at it during the latter half. Definitely, a learning process in regards to that. There are many more to sort through, so I hope to do another post here at some point with more of them.
