Since I will not be heading to the beach this summer (work commitments!), I dug up an image from a trip we did last year to the South African Wild Coast.
This morning I hoped for some dramatic sunrise conditions, but a cloud bank hovered on the horizon and kept the sun from breaking through in those first golden moments of light. I still liked the textures of this beach and the motion of the waves.
If you are travelling over this festive season - be safe! If you are planning to do some photography - remember all your gear!
Morkel Erasmus
Monday 19 December 2011
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...
Cheers, until next time...
Morkel Erasmus
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 |
Morkel Erasmus
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