Thorns for lunch, anyone?

[Katie Rupp]

Fascinating to see this Giraffe eating from a thorny acacia tree. Taken in the Serengeti, October 2010. C&C encouraged and greatly appreciated.

Canon 7D; f8, 1/1000; ISO 800; 100-400 @400

[Ken Watkins]

Rachel.

It is amazing that they never hurt their tongues or mouth, we have acacias by our front gate and believe me they are best avoided!

Would have liked to see more of the tongue.

[Rachel Hollander]

Katie - I like the stretched neck and the full mouth. I like the catchlight too. It would make a good "Got Milk?" campaign

Ken - It is Katie's image not mine, but one I would be happy to have. :D


Rachel

[Harshad Barve]

Lovely image and liked the POV here
TFS

[Ken Watkins]

[QUOTE=Rachel Hollander;594608
Ken - It is Katie's image not mine, but one I would be happy to have. :D
Rachel[/QUOTE]


OOOps:o

Sorry Katie

[Jeff Dyck]

What a great image! I love the intimate perspective and there is something about the shot that seems to really impart a sense of scale and the size of the giraffe.

There seems to be quite a few soft black specs under the chin - apart from the one very apparent one (that I am guessing is a piece of falling debris), most of the others look like sensor dust(?) - I'd be tempted to clean those up.

[Katie Rupp]

What a great image! I love the intimate perspective and there is something about the shot that seems to really impart a sense of scale and the size of the giraffe.

There seems to be quite a few soft black specs under the chin - apart from the one very apparent one (that I am guessing is a piece of falling debris), most of the others look like sensor dust(?) - I'd be tempted to clean those up.

Jeff, thanks for noting those black specs...I had cloned out two before posting and missed these smaller ones. The two that I ejected were flies...and I'm pretty sure these are also.