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These are some of my favorites from recent trips:

1.

2.

3.

Cannot choose between them

Number 2 without a shadow of a doubt. Awesome shot!

Mike1916 - I'd love to know how the hell you got close enough to get that snake photo hahaha But some really amazing stuff.

Here are some more of my favourites:


A herd of male Kudu at Addo


This guy scared the pants of my mom at Addo


My most memorable half hour in the hide at Addo

Mike, the snake shot is tops!

Thanks all

Me and my dad were watching two male lions at Nsemani Dam in April and we had been there for a hour or so when all of a sudden this boomslang popped up out of the log about a meter and a half from where we were parked.

Watched it for more than 30 min before it slithered out of the log, under our car and up a tree on the other side of the road.

Mike
What stunning photos, they are all beautiful. So the boomslang sleeps like a log hey!!

Thanks for sharing them

JJ

Some Awesome photos that have been posted! Well Done

Ja, I would go with teh boomslang as well...nice composition, and good lighting, and its not everyday you geta close up like that. Good work man.

I also like teh two Addo elephants at the hide, I know Addo well, and that afternoon sun that just bleeds over teh waterhole is something spectacular.

Brilliant pics on this thread but the boomslang is extraordinary

@Mike1916 I prefer your no 3. Love the capture of the cheetah's expression.

@CathJakins I like the male kudus at Addo! Although the photo is a bit grainy and the colours are a bit over-saturated, the composition really works.

Great shots! Mike, love the snake, but have to agree with Gwen, the Cheetah shot is really impressive.

The day that I took the photo was a really dreary and horrible day so the lighting wasn't good at all . And we were so far away from them so I've tried to make it look as striking as possible (with the little tools I have - no photoshop or anything) but evidently it hasnt worked.
Here's the original without cropping and only a slight adjustment of light:

Much prefer these colours. The non-cropped version is nice too. I like the desolate, minimalistic mood of it. Perhaps crop a bit off the top, to get the horizon on a third.

Thanks Gwen I learnt something new today hahaha but I'll definitely keep that rule in mind in the future

Hope you dont mind...I cropped it, removed teh noise, franctionally sharpened it, and then converted it to mono using a red filter effect to bring out the depth.

I did this in Paint shop Pro. Just to demonstrate that soetimes, "drab" photos make great mono shots