Elephants and Acacia Tree

[Grant Atkinson]

Canon 7D, EF 10-22mm lens, handheld. S/speed 1/2000s f5.6. Iso250, 28 May 2010.Time 09h42, Location Mombo, Okavango Delta, Botswana. Processed in ACR, sharpened in PS, cropped to 13mp.
All C and C welcome
Grant

www.grantatkinson.com (http://www.grantatkinson.com)

[Harshad Barve]

Mighty fine image ,
TFS

[Rahul Sachdev]

Good perspective here. Wide angle does give one a very different perspective.
Thought of giving this a more panoramic look

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Lovely landscape. The original post ought to be in the landscape section. The repost completely changes the perspective.

Why f5.6? Why not a narrow aperture? Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Bill Jobes]

I favor the expansive sky of the original, though the repost has merit as well.

In our more crowded areas of the planet, the sky is so often hidden by buildings, so it's refreshing to see such spectacular expansive blueness and puffy clouds.

It seems just the perfect place for majestic elephants to roam.

[Grant Atkinson]

Thanks for your comments, and your repost Rahul, it looks very nice as a pano but I was really happy to be able to get the clouds and the big piece of blue sky overhead. Sabyasachi, no reason for f5.6 but but operator error, I barely had time to get the wide-angle lens on before the elephants had walked past the opening..i didn't take the time to change the aperture.
Thanks for looking
Grant

[Hilary Hann]

I like the expansive sky and the composition of the elephants in the frame. The warthogs add some extra interest. A very nice image as presented.

[Alfred Forns]

Both look good in their own right !!! Make totally different images !!

Agree on the aperture setting but with the short focal length worked out well !!! Love seeing the larger picture !!

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Grant, I favour the OP as it contains all the elements and portrays the events very well, great clouds.

My only point would be that you should perhaps think about where you place the © text within your image. For me this could go anywhere other than where it is at present, as it is slap bang in the view point for me and find it slightly distracting.;)

TFS
Steve

[Steve Berkowitz]

The blue sky and clouds are so nice that I prefer the original. It's a keeper! Steve

[Grant Atkinson]

Thanks again for the comments, point taken Steve with my copyright text. Glad that folk liked the composition.
Thanks for looking
grant

[Phil Ertel]

Hi Grant, I like this one a lot. The habitat and sky really give me a feeling of place. Nicely composed. I prefer your original post but, also find the pano crop interesting. Thank for sharing.

[Morkel Erasmus]

my kind of wide angle shot Grant! I don't care much for the pano repost as I love the immense sky in your original post. did you use a CPL?

[Grant Atkinson]

Hi Morkel, no filter..the sky is really that blue after rain in Botswana it seems. Glad you liked the shot. cheers
Grant

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Prefer the original . The sky looks too good to be cropped . Great frame !!!