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    Ken Watkins
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    Another image from our sighting of a Brown Hyena Den at Madikwe, South Africa, 10th January 2012

    Very bad lighting conditions and plenty of twigs

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    500mm F4 hand-held

    F6.3, ISO 1600, 1/640

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    Ken - This is one of my favorites of yours. Huge cuteness factor and great IQ. The surrounding habitat gives the image a sense of the hyena peeking out of the den area. In a perfect world the shadows would not be across the face.

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    Rachel,

    Thanks for your comment, fortunately there is no such thing as a perfect world

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    I love the picture, for the same reasons mentioned above. Another reason is that I have never seen a brown hyena pup, only an adult, also in Madikwe. She was also in the shade but your light and IQ is much better.

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    Ken, the sighting itself is extraordinary. Great capture!

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    I like this a lot, Ken.
    Excellent find, great eye contact.
    A really special photo.
    Dan Kearl

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    Don't mind the dappled light as you have consistent shadow at least on this cute face.
    The diagonal timber lines frames quite nicely also.
    TFS


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    Thanks everybody, I was only to glad to see this, my wife has some wonderful video.

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    Thanks everybody, I was only too glad to see this, my wife has some wonderful video.

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    Amazing sighting and any picture of this scene would be fascinating - but this is a good one and I agree with others that you handled the lighting admirably

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    VWD in given conditions
    TFS

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