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Hello Everybody!

I think, everyone in this forum has a lot of lovely pictures and some of these are easily good enough to win prizes....but now i want you to post your special pic.

Your own picture you like most!!!! Your Picture NUMBER ONE!!!!

Something special, because of the moment you took it, or something very rare! Important is, that it is your NUMBER ONE.....


I hope you´ll help me to fill this topic with a lot of life, and with a lot of outstanding pics to make it a collection of dreams and passion. The passion for the photography and nature.

Please post your one and only with a short story about it....


HERE IS MY PIC NUMBER ONE.....



I saw this beautiful male leopard near Skukuza in September 2010. This beau was about 7metres away from me and stared directly into my eyes. A magic moment......

Great idea Buffalo_Soldier

Actually I have many pics I like, but if I have to choose only one it will be this:

I have 2 that stand out for me as our all time best sightings.

One the S25 a couple of years ago



and more recently if everyone will excuse me from posting it again!
our 2 Caracal kittens on the Mahonie Loop last year.

Indeed not an easy task to be done as there are far too many but if you chose one favourite sighting this would be the caracal we had 2009 in the KTP as we never expected to find one



And also this leopard sighting which lasted around 3 hours will be unforgetable



But I could have chosen around 100 pictures

Thanks for this topic, buffalo_soldier

Nice idea, buffalo_soldier.
For you a special pic from a night drive in Kruger, March 2005



Usually I don't have luck on night drives, this was an exception!

Thank you very much to all who posted their one and only pic under this topic!!!
By reading and watching all these beautiful experiences i remembered my first trip to KNP and a very special sighting, which is definately a must to post here....

My very first kill in Kruger...



We watched this croc for almost an hour, killing and feasting this leopard tortoise, at a small waterhole between Skukuza and Lower Sabie!!!!....Fantastic sighting!

This is a nice idea buffalo_soldier

This picture is not my best photo, but it's the memory that goes along with this photo that makes my hair stand up straight every time I look at it. (we took this picture moments before it happened)



We were at the Timbavati picnic site for lunch one afternoon in October last year, when this happened. The kids were admiring a bushbuck at the edge of the site while we were preparing lunch. (my son is on the right hand side with the green t-shirt with my husband)

We called for them and sat down to eat, and while eating my eye caught somthing running towards us. It was a bushbuck running for her life and behind her was a lioness chasing her. :

In a split second the guards jumped up from where they sat, yelled "LION" and screamed at the lioness. She suddenly saw the people at the site and didn’t like the tone of the guards, so she stopped abruptly with her chase and not very impressed with the situation.
She looked at us all for a few seconds and then turned around and walked away. We were all quit in shock and needless to say, I wanted to get out of there as soon as possible.

But I have to say, it was a once in a lifetime experience.

This is one of my favourite pics as it makes my heart sing for joy as I always see them in Kruger in winter!

This Pic brings tears to my eyes as I rejoice in the beauty of Kruger in spring! New growth and new life.

Not perfect pic's but they have great meaning for me!

Hi BS,

Nice idea. This was one of our best sightings in Kruger. In March last year my son, Bush Brat, said he wanted to see a Cape Clawless Otter. My dad and I told him that we had never seen one in over 30 years so he would have to be really lucky to find one. On our 3rd morning we left Lower Sabie when the gates opened and headed towards the H10. We were stopped on the low level bridge talking to someone else when BB shouted "OTTER"!!! It was right below us in the river, in and out of the reeds and rocks. We watched him for about 10 mins before he disappeared and we were the only ones to see him besides the guy we were talking to.

I took this one at Addo , he had just finished eating a bush buck....Love it !

Hi All

I think this is a wonderful topic! We all have a favourite photo (or 10) and most of the time its the story behind the photo that makes it a favourite and not actually the photo itself.

Myself and Hoofhearted drove into Phabeni Gate in Dec '10 with no clue what we were going to witness that day. We came across 2 adult hyaenas with 3 cubs in the road. We sat and watched the hyaenas with their cubs playing at the den site, which was too cute. As we left and turned the next corner, a pack of Wild Dogs came running past us . The were clearly on the hunt with two puppies following closely behind. The Wild Dogs ran right by the Hyaena Den and after a brief confrontation the Wild Dogs continued with two hyaenas shadowing their every move. The Wild Dogs killed a young Impala and halfway through the feast the two Hyaenas barged in and stole the kill.

We managed to get this amazing picture of the showdown.

Another photo I love love love (sorry)

One early morning, just as the birds were waking up, myself and Hoofhearted the amazing privilege to see the resident female Olifants leopard resting next to the road after a nights hunting. It was really something wonderful to see as she posed for a number of photos for us before casually walking across the road and into the awakening bush!

At the moment this is one of my fav photos, becaude I am new to photography and managed to snap these two, even though they were walking at the time!!

The photo is nothing special, but the experience of some 70 elephants surrounding us was

Some great pics and stories here - had to think a long time...but finally took a pic of our first self spotted leopard in kruger near skukuzza