Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard wrote: >Here are two more pictures form Samburu - both taken by Esther with >the GH2 and the 45 - 200 zoom. >When you start your first African safari you tend to shoot >everything in sight - fearful that you'll not see another example. > >After a few days you get more selective and by the end of the first >week you are telling the driver to drive by scenes that you would >have worked over when you were starting out. Sounds like you and Esther had a great time. Nothing wrong with being digitally profligate when all you're using is electrons. Though I blench at the thought of sorting through thousands of shots......editing about 500 when I came back from France was quite enough for me. >Here are two early pictures of giraffes when they were still new to us. > >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Kenya/3GirRivXw.jpg.html > >http://tinyurl.com/3vwt3fm > >And here are three young male giraffes fooling around. Our wild life >guide Divya Mudappa assured us that the male giraffe mounting his >boy friend was not gay - he was just showing his dominance as young >males want to do. > >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Kenya/DomiGiraffesw.jpg.html > >http://tinyurl.com/3l5v7w4 Great shots all - and I've learnt something new about giraffes..... Best of light. Alex -- Alex & Carmel Hurst Waterfall Near Cork Ireland Tel: +353 21 454 3328 Mobile: +353 87 245 7048 (A) +353 87 988 9927 (C) email: corkflor at iol.ie (for either of us) email while travelling: <corkflor at gmail.com> Carmel McCarthy <carmelmac at mynovanetworks.net> (for Carmel personally) UK email (when there) corkflor1 at o2.co.uk Home Pages: http://www.iol.ie/~corkflor Photo Gallery at: http://corkflor.smugmug.com