Giraffe Brothers

[Ed Cordes]

This trio of brothers live in the Serengeti. Image made on our recent Tanzania trip.

1D4 with 24-105 @ 65mm. Evaluative metering f 7.1 and 1/1250. Full frame processed in LR and CS4.

Thanks for looking. C&C welcome.

[Stu Bowie]

Ed, the central placement works well, and good to see them in the open. One of few animals that are more inquisitive with man, than being skittish.

[Harshad Barve]

Beautiful image Ed , lovely three HAs
TFS

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I agree that the central placement is better as there is one giraffe looking the other way. You could have used a narrow aperture as well. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Todd Frost]

Good getting them in the open, looks like the third brother was pouting and did not want his portrait made;). All in all a nice environmental portrait. TFS
Todd

[Ken Watkins]

A very beautifulimage, I only wish I could stop myself trying to take close ups of giraffe as mostly it does not work as well as this.

[Steve Maxson]

Nice poses by all and good sharpness, Ed. I could see cropping off the bottom (about up to your signature) and maybe a little off the left. In any case, it is a very nice image. On a different note, as a biologist, I am wondering if these are really brothers. I don't know anything about the fecundity or social behavior of giraffes, but I have doubts that they commonly have triplets. I wonder if it would be more appropriate to call these bachelor males or just a male group? Maybe some of our African friends can chime in here. :)

[Ed Cordes]

Nice poses by all and good sharpness, Ed. I could see cropping off the bottom (about up to your signature) and maybe a little off the left. In any case, it is a very nice image. On a different note, as a biologist, I am wondering if these are really brothers. I don't know anything about the fecundity or social behavior of giraffes, but I have doubts that they commonly have triplets. I wonder if it would be more appropriate to call these bachelor males or just a male group? Maybe some of our African friends can chime in here. :)

Thanks to all for the comments. I really appreciate them. Steve, they in fact are probably bachelor males. I never thought of that. I notices they were males (in the usual way ;) ) and made an initial assumption they must be brothers.

Thanks for teaching me some of the biology of the species. This is what makes this type of photography fun!

[Morkel Erasmus]

I think Steve hit it on the head. A herd of bachelor males who have to win the right to mate when the females come around. nice placement - it's a difficult animal to compose for if they are close-ish. the males have more stubby and thick 'horns' than the females (for the times when you can't see the "tools")