Jay,
These are beautiful images and I appreciate your descriptions, as they provide a nice context for the photography.
My wife and I will be on photo safari in Tanzania this June... your photographs now contribute to our growing excitement for our trip. If you wouldn't mind, could you tell me about the equipment you brought... I'm still picking up a few extra pieces of gear and would like to hear about some of your do's and don'ts.
regards,
bruce
Tim Kuhn wrote:
You have some gorgeous images here and I'm sure some incredible memories. What a treat to view all of these animals photographed so beautifully. Keep them coming.
Tim
Thanks, Tim. Yes, I have a number of great memories. I also have some not-so-great memories (my luggage getting lost for the first three days of the trip and my mom's passport getting stolen spring immediately to mind), but I'm trying to forget these memories.
All kidding aside, a trip to Africa is a trip of a lifetime and I have been very fortunate to have done it three times.
great stuff!
you saw lots of interesting animals.
lucky with that serval!
I also lucked out and saw TWO! in Ngorongoro this past January. Wildlife field biologist with us has only seen three over prior seven years total! One of them actually walked within 3 feet of the vehicle I was in and later it actually walked under another one of our groups vehicles! Amazing sightings!
Nice cheetah shot, we never managed to get very close to any and i never even got a shot.
Amazing place. I need to head back and try to time the river crossing or stay in a migration traveling tented camp and get that aspect.
Elessar wrote:
Thanks, Tim. Yes, I have a number of great memories. I also have some not-so-great memories (my luggage getting lost for the first three days of the trip and my mom's passport getting stolen spring immediately to mind), but I'm trying to forget these memories.
All kidding aside, a trip to Africa is a trip of a lifetime and I have been very fortunate to have done it three times.
Jay
wow three times already! that is very fortunate.
yeah you do have to be careful. my medicine bag got stolen out of the hotel room second or third day of the trip were not 100% sure which (never leave anything little things like that out in open, always keep in locked bag).
OwlsEyes wrote:
Jay,
These are beautiful images and I appreciate your descriptions, as they provide a nice context for the photography.
My wife and I will be on photo safari in Tanzania this June... your photographs now contribute to our growing excitement for our trip. If you wouldn't mind, could you tell me about the equipment you brought... I'm still picking up a few extra pieces of gear and would like to hear about some of your do's and don'ts.
regards,
bruce
Thanks Bruce. I'll send you a PM with my 2 cents on gear.
Scott-M wrote:
Jay, very nicely done. Looks like it was a great trip. Thanks for posting. The baboon shot is my fav.
Scott
Thanks, Scott. This was one of those situations where it was easy to have too much lens. I had my 400 + TC on one body and could barely get the baby baboon in the frame. I decided to switch to the 28-300 to bring in the adult, and even then didn't need the full 300.
skibum5 wrote:
great stuff!
you saw lots of interesting animals.
lucky with that serval!
I also lucked out and saw TWO! in Ngorongoro this past January. Wildlife field biologist with us has only seen three over prior seven years total! One of them actually walked within 3 feet of the vehicle I was in and later it actually walked under another one of our groups vehicles! Amazing sightings!
Nice cheetah shot, we never managed to get very close to any and i never even got a shot.
Amazing place. I need to head back and try to time the river crossing or stay in a migration traveling tented camp and get that aspect.
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Servals are beautiful aren't they? We also had a number of close encounters that I will be sharing in future posts. In Ngorongoro, we had a lioness laying in the shade of our vehicle for about 45 minutes. Don't you hate it when you have to pull out the wide-angle lens for a lion?
Chris Willis wrote:
Jay, I continue to enjoy these sets you are posting from your trip -- thanks for posting them. I hope on my next trip to Africa I do as well.
Chris
Thanks, Chris. I still owe you a follow-up PM on gear and will get it to you in the next few days. Too much basketball to watch today (GO Devils!!) though.
Elessar wrote:
Servals are beautiful aren't they? We also had a number of close encounters that I will be sharing in future posts. In Ngorongoro, we had a lioness laying in the shade of our vehicle for about 45 minutes. Don't you hate it when you have to pull out the wide-angle lens for a lion?
Jay
haha.
for us in ngorongoro could have used a 1200mm (with a 2x extender) for lions!
but in kiriwira yeah it was wide angle city for lions!
wonderful shots! theses bring back great memories for me having been fortunate to got the Mara 2x now. we we lucky to see 2 servals back in jan 07, and yes they are very shy. i love viewing your photos, you show us all how beautiful Africa is and hopefully will stay. we were going back in july of this year (business as well as safari) but with the civil unrest we postponed til next year sometime. I love Samburu (esp for elephants) and Mara (for lions and cheetahs), do you have any suggestions or favorite places? What was you favorite lens? you pics are so crisp. When are you going back?
