Travel First K7 Stuff from South Africa Trip

First K7 Stuff from South Africa Trip · 04:42 PM

Baptism by fire in South Africa all taken hand held. What do they say "never take pictures of children or animals"? These are my first shots with the K7.

Adam · 11-11-2011, 05:45 PM

Fantastic pics, especially the elephant ones! Thanks for sharing

EyeSpy · 11-11-2011, 05:56 PM

Wow.Nice ones. I would like to take a walk in the desert and see elephants. .

photoleet · 11-11-2011, 06:01 PM

Just amazing!

canajuneh · 11-11-2011, 06:12 PM

Oh WOW! What wonderful shots. You say these are the first with your K5 but it looks like you already knew a lot about getting value from your camera. I'm curious though about the location - was it out in the wild or a place like a safari park? Not that it really matters - the photos are great.

RussellK7 · 11-12-2011, 03:23 AM

Many thanks for your nice comments folks. The pictures are actually out of sequence but are located as below:-

The flowers – Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town.

The Cheetah – Shiduli Private Game Lodge at Edeni Game Reserve which covers some 9.500 Acres of wilderness. There were 4 Landrovers and we all set off in different points of the compass with an early drive at 05:00 and a late one at 16:00 on into darkness.

The Vervet Monkey – was on a tree outside of our room at the game lodge. She was sucking nectar from the flowers and not damaging them.

The Elephants – Chobe National Park Botswana where we saw at least 500 elephants in one day. This place was a photographers paradise as there was less dense foliage with constant sunshine and 38 degrees. Chobe covers 10,566 square kilometres and has an elephant population of 120,000. We took a day trip there from Victoria Falls and it really blew us away.

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11-11-2011, 05:45 PM	#2
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EyeSpy Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Arizona Photos: Albums Posts: 663	Wow.Nice ones. I would like to take a walk in the desert and see elephants. .

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canajuneh Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Saskatchewan Posts: 221	Oh WOW! What wonderful shots. You say these are the first with your K5 but it looks like you already knew a lot about getting value from your camera. I'm curious though about the location - was it out in the wild or a place like a safari park? Not that it really matters - the photos are great.

11-12-2011, 03:23 AM	#6
RussellK7 New Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Merseyside, UK. Posts: 11 Original Poster	Many thanks for your nice comments folks. The pictures are actually out of sequence but are located as below:- The flowers – Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town. The Cheetah – Shiduli Private Game Lodge at Edeni Game Reserve which covers some 9.500 Acres of wilderness. There were 4 Landrovers and we all set off in different points of the compass with an early drive at 05:00 and a late one at 16:00 on into darkness. The Vervet Monkey – was on a tree outside of our room at the game lodge. She was sucking nectar from the flowers and not damaging them. The Elephants – Chobe National Park Botswana where we saw at least 500 elephants in one day. This place was a photographers paradise as there was less dense foliage with constant sunshine and 38 degrees. Chobe covers 10,566 square kilometres and has an elephant population of 120,000. We took a day trip there from Victoria Falls and it really blew us away.

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