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    An isolated young Waterbuck picks a termite mound to stand on.
    Image captured on foot in Mana Pools last year. Let's have your honest thoughts? I quite like it myself...

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    Hi Morkel - I find myself thinking that the buck gets kind of lost in the image. I wonder if it is more visible/prominent in the color version. I also find myself wishing it wasn't centered left to right but that's personal preference.

    Travel safe and TFS,
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    Morkel,

    This is one of those images that makes me ponder whether I like it or not; it is different and interesting. The Waterbuck looks totally dwarfed and somewhat threatened not only by the vastness of those trees but also by how dark they are and being in the center underscores that impression. And for me, the black and white treatment fits the feeling as well. All in all, it makes me even more curious about Mana Pools.

    Have a wonderful Mara experience!

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    Hi Morkel -- Though it is not that type of image where you instantly start looking at the subject and details of it, but it is this kind of images i like where the photographer has tried an uncommon approach. The symmetry of Trees on both sides of the Water buck is interesting and also the clean BG only behind the animal. I would crop a silver bit from the bottom or might tempt to crop and see just upto the mound to bring the buck a bit more in the front. TFS !

    Wish you Happy and Safe travelling !

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    Mork, I like the concept and the conversion. The image conveys the habitat and the terrain well and though the buck is small in the frame, it is not fully lost.

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    Hi Morkel great concept !!!!
    I like then placement of the buck in the gap between the two trees .The buck does look so tiny compared to those biiig !! tress , just lovely looking.
    I like the overall conversion and tones , i just have to points i might personally change ........... one would be the very cool look . I would turn it more into neutral and/or very slight warmish tint .
    The other thing would be that i would loose the bright strip of FG and start to crop where the darker part of the FG begins.

    TFS Andreas

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    Very interesting shoot! I like b/n for wildlife...Well done !

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