Angry Hippo

[Ken Watkins]

This Hippo did not take to kindly to our arriving in his bay. Unfortunately when he charged the boat I missed the shots (too close and furious), so this will have to do.

Taken on Lake Kariba, Matusadona National Park, Zimbabwe 20th September 2010.

EOS 1D MkIV

F7.1, ISO 800, 1/1000

[Steve Kaluski]

Perfect Ken! :cheers::cheers::cheers:

[Lorant Voros]

I wonder how that looked like when it charged the boat. However, this is pretty wild and I love it. Very powerful image.

[Gen Benjamin]

Wow, great story telling here. beautiful light nicely done.
Gen

[Grace Scalzo]

Powerful image, Ken. I'd level it, were it mine.

[Hilary Hann]

Excellent image Ken, what a powerful animal and beautiful light.

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - stunning shot. Great light, good action and very sharp. Definitely have to watch out for them while boating.

TFS,
Rachel

[Shreyas Mantri]

Crisp colors and light! All it needs is a trunk and would equal a juvenile elephant :D
It's a coincidence that I just finished watching a documentary on Crocs and Hippos and their individual aggressiveness. And they did show a couple of hippo charges!!

Thanks for sharing!
Shreyas

[Steve Canuel]

One of the best hippo shots I've seen. Excellent clarity. Well done.

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks very much for all of the kind comments, but I think the Hippo should get it for putting on a fine show this certainly was not one of those threat yawns.

I have never seen anything like it and whereas I am extremely dissapointed to miss the "real" action, I am happy to get this and a few others.

Does it still need a little rotation?

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Ken,
A big congrats! I like this image a lot. Typically we dont see a hippo standing "tall" in water. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Kiran Poonacha]

WOW.. great moment captured well done.. congrats

[Harshad Barve]

Big time congrats for this , My new fav from your TZ trip :cheers::cheers::cheers:
TFS

[Ken Watkins]

My new fav from your TZ trip


This was from Zimbabwe;)

[Harshad Barve]

This was from Zimbabwe;)

OUCH , Bad habit of not reading carefully BTW now I can say my new FAV from Zimbabwe

[Robert Amoruso]

Still a cool image Ken. :cool:

[Sid Garige]

Killer image Ken. Great pose and excellent light.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Awesome!!! A dream image for sure!:cheers:

[stuart wanuck]

Killer pose is right

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Ken,

I have absolutely nothing to add. I think everybody else used all the phrases I would have chosen to say this is awesome!

[DanWalters]

Great light and action! Maybe just a little rotation.

[Charles Glatzer]

Ken,

Spectacular, certainly one of the best hippo images I have had the pleasure of viewing.

Best,

Chas

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks to all for the amazingly supportive comments.

It was certainly right place, right time, right Hippo.

[Stephen Earle]

Superb opportunity here and well used. I only see one image and it needs some rotation.

[Dumay de Boulle]

This is superb...The pose is great and I like the warm light...I like the portrait crop, would be interesting to see a landscape crop as well...But this works nicely....I think a 1-2 Degree CCW rotation to level waterline but otherwise a top class image.:cheers:

[Ken Watkins]

Dumay,

Thanks for that, I think I corrected the rotation before it was posted on the website for Rhino Safari Camp

http://www.rhinosafaricamp.com/the_camp/index.html

My favourite camp in all Africa, not expensive, not crowded, great food and good friends.