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Hi Morkel
Very fascinating. Drama in the Mara...
Looks like you had a great trip. i´m looking forward to see what you captured. Great quality as always from you.
/Gregor
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Hi Morkel, welcome back.
Good to hear you had a great time with lots of good stuff to view.
The image is quite nice with a lovely diagonal line of wildebeest awaiting to pass the danger, the one in the back is nicely breaking the emptiness of the BG.
Your usual IQ is there, but i would reduce the blacks in the darks, cause to channels are blown in the darks, better said choked.
TFS Andreas
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Welcome back Morkel,
I see you had a blast in the Mara. Your image as usual looks great. 
Have a great week and hope not such a hard time being back in the office
Ciao
Anette
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Hi Morkel - nice to hear you had a good trip and I'm looking forward to your images. Nice start on this one. I might consider a tighter pano with some off the bottom as an alternate crop drawing even more attention to the croc. Although I am guessing you composed or cropped to where you did because it included mostly whole heads of the wildebeests.
TFS,
Rachel
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Now i know why the water was brown hahaha
Poor Wildebeeste and what a size on that croc!!!
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Morkel, great image, well capture, nothing I would change here. All I could wish for is to see the reaction of the wildebeest, which I expect you will post later!
TFS.
Loi
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Morkel!!! Welcome back!!! I bet this is but one tiny morsel of what Morkel has in store for us! That croc is huge...I am not surprised, given their healthy diet of fresh wildebeest...Great capture, cannot wait for the rest of the images
Warmest regards,
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Awesome image Morkel, I am impatient to see what happens next! Love the comp, the POV and clarity!
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Thanks folks - still finding my feet...

Originally Posted by
Rachel Hollander
I might consider a tighter pano with some off the bottom as an alternate crop drawing even more attention to the croc. Although I am guessing you composed or cropped to where you did because it included mostly whole heads of the wildebeests.
Rachel, you guessed it. Plus it had nice "visual flow" for me this way
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Okay I want to see the whole Croc.... I'm guessing at least a 16 footer..... I can't imagine the guts it takes for the beasts to cross the waters
Very nice shot, love the comp and the lighting on the croc.
Some of the water is a little funny colored to me, but you said you added some NIK effects so I might just be seeing those and I'm not familiar with them.
Can't wait to see more.
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Originally Posted by
LinzRiverBalmer
Okay I want to see the whole Croc.... I'm guessing at least a 16 footer..... I can't imagine the guts it takes for the beasts to cross the waters
Very nice shot, love the comp and the lighting on the croc.
Some of the water is a little funny colored to me, but you said you added some NIK effects so I might just be seeing those and I'm not familiar with them.
Can't wait to see more.
Linz, the Mara river colour is reddish brown for the most part during this season where so many animals cross it and churn it around...nothing changed in colour, I only applied contrast effects.
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Cool shot Morkel. One of those images that instantly gets your thoughts going. What are they thinking? What would I do if I had to cross with them?
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Spectacular - love the way the croc is in amongst them, rather than them just swimming towards it.
Ed
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