Taken towards the latter part of the day, this was with a pod of about 15 hippo's ranging in all ages & sizes. Once they were use to your presence they easy/quickly settled down, however this does cause their curiosity to kick in and so you always have to be 'on your toes' as quite a few of you know, and move at a moments notice. Shot from a skiff, this is the FF image.
Steve
Subject: Curious Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius)
Location: Botswana
Camera: Canon MKIV
Lens: 500f/4 plus 1.4x HH
Exposure: 1/160s at f/11 ISO400 +0.33 stop compensation
I applied a small tilt shift blur to the FG as the water lines & repeat patterns were too strong & dominant.








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, so the added blur to the FG works nicely!
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