Thursday 8 December 2011

PhotoShare: Ebb and Flow

So, here is an image I captured in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park recently. Given, it's not a clearly recognisable image at first, and it's not going to be everyone's cup-of-tea...but I felt like sharing it anyway.

Most mornings when you drive out from the Twee Rivieren rest camp up the Nossob riverbed, you see flocks of Red-Billed Quelea move to and fro between shrubs and bushes, looking for food. I looks like an orchestrated wave, and almost like a "swarm". I tried to capture something of this behaviour when they perched on a shrub for a moment. I used a slow shutter speed to enable me to capture a blur of birds as they took off, and hoped for some to remain on the shrub (and to be fairly sharp).

The conversion to black-and-white was also logical from the outset, as the colours detracted from the shape of the blurred flying birds. I am curious to know what you think of this one...

(Nikon D3s, Nikkor 500mm f4 VR-II)  f7.1  |  1/100 SS  |  ISO-200
  Cheers, until next time...

Morkel Erasmus

5 comments:

  1. I like this capture.
    Outstanding photography.
    God Bless.

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  2. I love this, Morkel! Blow it up large, its the kind of image you can look at many times and still find something new ...

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  3. Thanks for your comments Johannes and Tanya...

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  4. I like it. Nothing wrong with some motion in a shot and you can clearly see it is about birds.

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  5. Definitely my cup-of-tea! Very well executed shot!

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