Boy, 8/12 was a good day in Tarangire. Here's some excerpts covering less then 1/2 a day, our 2nd day out. (a link to the 'best of' gallery:
070812 - [Best of] Tarangire National Park album | m8o | Fotki.com ... there's a separate gallery for the Zebras, Baboons, Elephants, others, and more to come for Giraffes)
Still using the 300mm w/1.4x TC ... still had the polarizer filter in place w/o realizing, so didn't turn-it and make use of it properly. There's a few pix that display the polarizing 'signature' tho. Like the 2nd landscape photo below.
(not in chronological order)
While driving from camp into the Park, I shot some pix of the two most dramatic trees in the area.
The 'tree of life' all over in Tarangire. Amazing how the elephants rips the bark off, or holes through the whole thing, or gouge 1/2 the trunk out and the tree keeps living. Here's a unmollested version:
I had the driver/guide stop as I saw the mountain stacked behind the tree. The 'polarizing signature' I was talking about, with color enhanced in Lightroom:
Got some sharper birds this day then the day before: Tho don't look at the full rez original of this below cus it's -real- noisy (morning clouds hadn't burned off ; was practically raining) A closer view:
The morning was primarilly filled with primates and zebras. But there were some others....
Like the Dik-Dik: And elephants are everywhere in Tarangire ... this one needed a Q-tip:
and some others.
We got into the park pretty early. This one must have missed morning call... Or is the tough monkey life just too much for this one? Is one bite'n the other one's wiener?! ...and...umm.... Monkey's version of "you wash my back I'll wash yours"?
...continued in next post...