m8o in Northern Tanzania '07 ...a Link to it that is... (serious d/l warning!)

m8o

I'm finally posting images of my trip to Tanzania as I've finally gotten through about 1.5 days of the 10 day safari. Still 2500 RAWs to get through!

The main thread is under the "Journeys" forum. I decided to post it there at I'm filling the post with a lot of hot air too... :rofl annotating each or group as I go. You can find it here: m8o in Northern Tanzania '07 (serious d/l warning!) . I hope you enjoy viewing as much as I enjoyed being there and taking them.

Excerpts of the "best of" excerpts:


















Please visit m8o in Northern Tanzania '07 (serious d/l warning!) in the 'Journeys' forum for about 10x more ... and about 100x more within about 2 -3 weeks! :barb I won't be posting any more images here but rather will be maintaining that thread. (well, maybe I'll post one or two teasers here for shooting some days, but that's it!)

dbaker1221

excellent series!! love the color on the first....

m8o

dbaker1221 wrote:

excellent series!! love the color on the first....

Thanx. I keep getting lucky. There were a few more silhouettes that I deleted which I wish I hadn't now; though this one was obviously the keeper. But it's still so much better then I thought it would be from the camera preview, that I wonder about the others...

There's an actual story that goes with that [first] shot, which you can read in my main thread on our trip:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=628604#post628604
...perfect example of why I decided to put it all under 'Journeys' rather then here actually.

Maestro

Gorgeous light in the first one. Nice detail with the baboons. I like the two pics of the single zebra. I love the eye contact with that bird, fine detail too. And who doesn't like a nice elephant shot? I do.

Harryb

Excellents et.

m8o

Thank you Harry. Your "You want answers? We need questions! (or ask Ron Reznick)" post was downloaded and put onto my Sony eReader, along with Fred Parker's Ultimate Exposure Computer article, which I read and re-read on the flight there to Tanzania. Be sure to check the thread linked to, as there's loads more worthy of sharing I've been posting.

kgarrett11

Great shots. I like 4, 7 and 8 the best. Isn't it great shooting over there?

raptorcaptor

Like the zebra shots best!

Shasoc

I like the mood in the first shot.

m8o

Thanx everyone. Should be done converting and posting in about a month... :cry

Shasoc, I gave the 1st one another treatment closer to the original (WB and tint adjust) which I like much better. It maintains the green of the hillside at the other end of the little valley too.

I didn't crop it. better when cropped. however this has its attaction too, as you get a better sense of the edge of the branch the baboon was willing to go to to think it's getting away from the lioness.

It's amazing how much detail is in the shadow... (another treatment)


Not that I like that, just surprised how easy Lightroom can pull the detail out of the RAW.

m8o

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| FYI all, I just updated the main thread in the 'Journeys' forum with about 40 pix.
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m8o

Just updated the main thread under 'Journeys' linked to in the 1st post of this thread. One sample from each post:

I love how the heat distortion and dust caused this to take on the character of a painting.

That's not sky and clouds in the back-ground... it's the crater rim wall!

Jackels were pretty rare...


Sunrise over the crater the next morning...



And I jumped a few days ahead just to get to these... (a few of the female lions sport these tracking collars)

raptorcaptor

Very cool! Like the additions!

Tentacion

I'm SO JEALOUS....Great Shots!!

m8o

Thxn, my pleasure.

As I'm not getting hardly any comments over in 'Journeys' I wish I'd posted here... :cry () If you haven't clicked the link in post #1, have a look here
[ m8o in Northern Tanzania '07 (serious d/l warning!) ]
for excerpts from my fotki gallery of what i think to be the best keepers.
(with these in this thread here being just 'teasers' )