Rare Sighting? 2

[Ken Watkins]

Another image from our sighting of a Brown Hyena Den at Madikwe, South Africa, 10th January 2012

Very bad lighting conditions and plenty of twigs:2eyes2:

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4 hand-held

F6.3, ISO 1600, 1/640

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - This is one of my favorites of yours. Huge cuteness factor and great IQ. The surrounding habitat gives the image a sense of the hyena peeking out of the den area. In a perfect world the shadows would not be across the face.

TFS,
Rachel

[Ken Watkins]

Rachel,

Thanks for your comment, fortunately there is no such thing as a perfect world:bg3:

[BenBotha]

I love the picture, for the same reasons mentioned above. Another reason is that I have never seen a brown hyena pup, only an adult, also in Madikwe. She was also in the shade but your light and IQ is much better.

TFS
Ben

[Shreyas Mantri]

Ken, the sighting itself is extraordinary. Great capture!

[dankearl]

I like this a lot, Ken.
Excellent find, great eye contact.
A really special photo.

[Marc Mol]

Don't mind the dappled light as you have consistent shadow at least on this cute face.
The diagonal timber lines frames quite nicely also.
TFS

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks everybody, I was only to glad to see this, my wife has some wonderful video.

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks everybody, I was only too glad to see this, my wife has some wonderful video.

[Paul Taylor]

Amazing sighting and any picture of this scene would be fascinating - but this is a good one and I agree with others that you handled the lighting admirably

[Harshad Barve]

VWD in given conditions
TFS