Thirsty Giraffe

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

A giraffe drinking from a puddle while the oxpeckers struggle to hang on to the neck. The pose & funny face with the water running off really made me smile.
5D III
500 II
1/1600
f/8
ISO 800

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Sanjeev - A fun image. I like the quirky pose of the giraffe and the water trail from its drink. The oxpeckers seem a little lost against the giraffe. If it were mine I would reduce the reds, especially in the dirt in the bg.

TFS,
Rachel

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Sanjeev well this is extra ordinary timed .... very difficult specially when the giraffe is not parallel to the camera .
Love the frame , just wish you had the BG not that cluttered , but nothing you could do about .
Nice one , TFS Andreas

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Sanjeev, not perhaps the most flattering of poses, but still a good one to have and unique, I've not seen anything like this posted before.

This to me is a youngster, not an adult??? If you had upped the ISO to 1600 the SS and capture would have been better, it's predicting what's going to happen & be ready.

TFS
Steve

[Gabriela Plesea]

Hello Sanjeev,

Good timing and a fun pose indeed! I have a few similar images taken in the Kalahari, not sure why I wasn't tempted to process them...
Could you perhaps check where is the FP, head looks a tad soft but maybe a tad more sharpening will do the trick, wondering if it's the SS or you were a bit off target, it happened to me

Thank you for this, it did put a smile on my face and I really like the variety of species you have been sharing lately. Err... what's next?

Kind regards,