This is My Home!

[Ken Watkins]

A Springbok introduces us to his land and ponders why anybody chose to re-introduce Cheetahs?

Taken in Mountain Zebra National Park, South Africa, 22nd April 2012

EOS 1D MkIII

70-200mm MkII at 95mm

F5.6, ISO 400, 1/500

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - I like the placement of the springbok in the frame though might prefer just a tad more room below. Nice to show the expanse as well.

TFS,
Rachel

[Sid Garige]

Beautiful composition and excellent wide view Ken. Brilliant job with techs and subject placement. Excellent.

[John Ippolito]

Ken, nicely composed and exposed/processed. I also like the expansive view of the landscape included here. Very nicely done.

[Steve Canuel]

Very nice Ken. A good looking animal with a great view of its home range. PP looks real good to my eye, has nice detail but is not overly crisp and has a nice, soft, natural look. A touch more on the bottom would be nice but not at the expense of some of the top and not a deal breaker if you don't have any.

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks very much for your kind comments, I should have said this is full frame, composed "in camera":bg3:

My intention being to show the animals rather different to "normal" environment, which given the rather bleak landscape without too much in the way of pesky grass and foliage works quite well, I think.

Plus of course I love antelope, hoping for some decent Oribi on my next trip to Northern Uganda only 3 days from now I might be warm.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Ken,
colors ,comp (bit tight to bottom),contrast,sharpness work well.
I would try to tone down the sky a bit to give it a bit more pop.

Cheers Andreas

[Stan Cunningham]

Agree with above on the expanse, amazing amount of detail for 5.6, great comp.