Canon 5DM3, Canon f5.6 400mm@f5.6, 1/400s, ISO 200, HH, on foot. PP: Bridge/CC - cropped slightly. The old bull, Boswell, would shake the tree to provide fresh food for his group. Note the radio collar.
Canon 5DM3, Canon f5.6 400mm@f5.6, 1/400s, ISO 200, HH, on foot. PP: Bridge/CC - cropped slightly. The old bull, Boswell, would shake the tree to provide fresh food for his group. Note the radio collar.
Douglas Bolt
DougBoltPhotography.com
Hi Doug -- Nice scene here - love those flowers / leaves in mid-air, which tells the story of the old bull shaking the tree. Wow - what huge tusks on that guy! Nice detail and IQ overall. I might try a slight crop from the bottom to see if that takes things up a notch or not.
Great image of these gentle giants...as Mark said...I really like the falling leaves frozen in the air...The old man providing food for his family!

Hi Douglas, nice science in good light. Good sharpness and details. I wish you had not cut off the elies on the left and right, but understand you had a fixed 400. Loi
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Hi Doug
When the image was opening, I thought I saw a lot of artifacts in BG, love the falling pods!
Agree with a sliver off the bottom.
Your gamble to get sharp image at that SS handheld paid of, well done.
Agree with Loi, but one can not crop differently.
Nice one..
Hello Douglas!
Lovely behavioural shot and I agree with Andre and Loi, good sharpness and details as well as colours-well done!!!
Kind regards,
Gabriela Plesea
Hi Douglas - Nice storytelling image. I agree with the above comments.
TFS,
Rachel
Agree with all above and some nice 3d effect here too. Great behavioural shot that always goes a long way to adding to a already great image. TFS Douglas.
What a morning...and what an elephant.
I think you did as well as you could framing with a 400mm fixed lens here, Doug. I would support a slight crop from the bottom and perhaps the top too?
I think you can back off the sharpening just a tad as presented here.
PS: folks take note that what he's shaking from the tree are seed pods of the Faidherbia Albida tree, a favourite snack of elephants in both the Mana floodplains and the Hoanib riverbed in Namibia...
lovely behavioural image, I agree maybe back off the sharpening a little on the ele's because there is a really abrupt transition from ele to background.