Beasts of the Wild, IV (last in series)
(all from Luangwa Valley but for swans)
Beasts of the Wild, III
Luangwa Valley again…the peacock and Bengal tiger were taken at the Nature Science Center in Greensboro
Beasts of the Wild, III
Sent from Greensboro, NC, United States
Beasts of the Wild II
Zambia, Luangwa Valley, Sept. 2008
Beasts of the Wild
For the next several days I'm posting pictures of animals, mostly taken from our trip to Zambia in September 2008 in the dry season there. The alligator in this first series, however, was shot from a small cruise boat in a Louisiana bayou with my "old" Oly E-10. (My trip with my stepson Bryan to the New Orleans Jazz Festival several years ago.)
Venetian plaster
–just love the way that finish changes a room
Canon EOS 5D Mark II 1/20s
Focal length: 16.omm f/2.8
(35mm equivalent: 16mm) ISO: 1250
dogma
…when "the best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."
Small elephant with mother
Previous image used in composite
The village boy removed from original background and used in shot from Luangwa Valley (Zambia also), &c. No matter how carefully the Photoshop distortion tool is wielded, one just can't turn a frown into a smile…
Sent from Greensboro, NC, United StatesYoung village boy in Chongwe village, Sept. 2008
My wife Susan and I took a dream trip to Zambia and South Africa last year. My son Rod (then in the Peace Corps) took us to Chonwe village about 40 minutes from Lusaka, where he had lived with his "home family" in preparation for his stint in the bush there. On the way to his former "home" we met the lad in the picture here. Something about his the biblical passage on the T-shirt he wore ("for God so loved the world…"), his serious countenance and the fish he'd caught all seemed to work together in a way beyond the telling.
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