Wild Dog (Meet and Greet)

[Ken Watkins]

Taken at the Lagoon pack den, Kwando concession, Northern Botswana 2nd July 2009

EOS 1D MkIIn

28-300mm at 80mm

F7.1, ISO 400, 1/640

[Harshad Barve]

This is a fantastic image, pack seems to be in playfull mood
TFS

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Ken,
I would try to work on bringing up some detail in the shadow areas because you nailed all 4 HA's and getting a bit more seperation in there will definitely help. Love the position of the 3 tails too. Must have been quite special to witness!

[David Fletcher]

Wonderful shot Ken. As presented, i feel it is soft and feeling the image has that something special, so tried a bit on it. Hope you like.

[Milan V]

Really like how you catch the action. Good work David!

[Ed Cordes]

Repost is better. Great capture of the moment. Really tells you how the animals live.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice action. First I thought that there are only 3 wild dogs, due to their tail. The tails appear to be radiating from a centre. Repost looks better.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks for all of the comments, I agree entirely that the repost is better, David has kindly let me know how he did it, one thing for certain is that there are many ways to skin a cat.

The meet and greet performed by Wild Dogs is to my mind the greatest Wildlife experience you can have (apart from Tigers), but you really need the sound to enjoy it at its best.

[Morkel Erasmus]

wonderful moment captured Ken! Dave's repost has improved it and I'm jealous of the experience! what is the 'meet and greet'? what do they do and what for - to introduce new members to the pack?