The African Sloth

Gallery: WildlifePosted November 16, 2010214 views9 comments

Hi all,

No, I am not crazy, I know there is no sloth in Africa... Anyway, this is a picture I took in Kenya last september.
It's a picture I always dreamt to do, and I finally shot it on our last day of our trip... How happy I was when I checked it on the memory card

I hope you will like it.
Cheers,

David

EXIF : Canon Eos 50D + EF600mm f/4L IS USM
1/30 s., f/4, ISO 800
(stabilized with bean bag on car's door)

PS: Oh... by the way, of course it's a lion shaking his mane after the rain

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Barbara Graham on November 16, 2010 at 9:34 AM

What a bizarre and amazingly captured picture!

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Comment posted by James Campbell on November 16, 2010 at 10:31 AM

Too awesome! Well done on this capture - I would have been thrilled also.. I wonder how it would worked shot landscape? just a thought.. Definately the two-toed one then

Registered on January 12, 2009, 48 Posts, 377 Comments

Comment posted by David Grimardias on November 16, 2010 at 10:35 AM

Thank you Barbara and James. I am happy of the feeling you had from this picture.

James, I deliberately took this one in portrait because, with the 600mm, I would not have got the whole head and water drops over it by shooting landscape.
Perhaps with my 300mm it would have been better, but I had the 600mm in hands at this moment

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Comment posted by Max Waugh on November 16, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Well done, David. The perfect cone is great, but the spray really completes the story. Vertical works well for me.

Max

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on November 16, 2010 at 6:25 PM

Neat abstract effect!

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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on November 17, 2010 at 2:28 AM

Great abstract n terrific effect!
Jagdeep Rajput

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Comment posted by Marsel van Oosten on November 17, 2010 at 3:37 PM

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Comment posted by Richard Tomalty on November 17, 2010 at 6:02 PM

Excellent.
Very amusing.
RickT

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Comment posted by Brad Hill on November 19, 2010 at 8:50 AM

Hi David,

Creative and fun! I INSTANTLY knew what it was!

Cheers...thanks for sharing this one!!

Brad

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