Uganda Kob Portrait

[Ken Watkins]

Unfortunately (for us) due to very good rains the grass was very long in Uganda, this made it virtually impossible to get images of this beauty which were clear of pesky grass even on the head.

This one was taken in Toro-Semliki Reserve, Uganda, 19th June 2012

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4 hand-held

F6.3, ISO 800, 1/1600

They really are this red

[Marc Mol]

Colours well depicted here Ken (from my memory of them some 19 years ago:Whoa!:) nice attentive look you've captured with good DOF.
TFS

[Colin Driscoll]

Lovely portrait with excellent detail.

[Hendri Venter]

Nice OOF BKG and pose here Ken.

[Gregor Bergquist]

Very nice and clean portrait, with overall very good quality and good BG. Fore some reason I thing If it was a predator everyone would say WOW (me too- I guess :e3) - I think it is very lovely displaying all the other animals too. So thanks for that.

I like it.

Cheers, Gregor

[Morkel Erasmus]

A lovely study here - good detail and clarity.
Love the texture of the horns.
Is the nosetip in focus on the high res?

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks everybody for commenting, much appreciated.

Gregor,
Thank you for appreciating the "lesser" animals, I think variety is very important and like to share my luck. The grip of the "Big 5" is everywhere:w3

Morkel,

Are you trying to indicate in a roundabout manner that the nose is OOF.

[Harshad Barve]

Lovely portrait
TFS

[Dumay de Boulle]

Nice pose and good BG. DOF and fine detail looks good...Have you considered a CW rotation to make it upright and straight in the frame...Just a thought!

[Ken Watkins]

Dumay,

If you could see the whole of the image you would see he was leaning backwards, hence the folds in the skin at the bottom of his neck.

[Hilary Hann]

Uganda Kob, one of the beautiful antelopes. Thanks for posting this. I love the white neck.

[Steve Canuel]

Great looking animal. Love the detail in the horns.