African morning

Gallery: WildlifePosted June 6, 20111,358 views26 comments

We found this giraffes early one morning in Balule Natural Reserve, which is a apart of Greater Kruger Park in South Africa, just when the sun starts to climb over the hill. So background trees were still in shade, while giraffes were lit by the sun.

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26 comments

Comment posted by Harshad Barve on June 6, 2011 at 4:50 AM

Gorgeous image

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Comment posted by Wayne Willison on June 6, 2011 at 11:06 AM

The light is magical here. Love the rim light on the giraffes, the comp and subdued background. Welcome top the wildlife gallery, Gorazd.

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Comment posted by Scott Fricke on June 6, 2011 at 6:49 PM

Beautiful composition Gorazd! Great background and the light on the grass and around the giraffes is perfect, really well done.

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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on June 7, 2011 at 12:09 AM

Really beautiful image Gorazd. Not often that you get extraordinary light like this to work with!

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Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on June 7, 2011 at 12:37 AM

Gorazd, this is stunning!

Love the light, the colors and the nicely separated foggy BG. A real wall hanger!!!

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Comment posted by Ashley Vincent on June 7, 2011 at 12:57 AM

Beautiful lighting and wonderfully artistic, many thanks for sharing this with us Gozard and welcome to the forum :^)

Hope to see more of the images you captured in Balule Natural Reserve here in the days and weeks ahead :^)

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Comment posted by Anand Narayanan on June 7, 2011 at 2:48 AM

Utterly gorgeous

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on June 7, 2011 at 2:55 AM

Absolutely remarkable lighing here, I would really like to see a larger version.

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Comment posted by Neal Cooper on June 7, 2011 at 1:34 PM

Stunning image Gorazd. I love the mood you captured here. Great early morning colors in the grass. Is this a full frame image or can you crop a bit wider. IMHO I think the color of the grass together with a wider crop would be very powerful.

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Comment posted by Gorazd Golob on June 7, 2011 at 2:49 PM

Thank you all for your welcome and great words. It is 95% of FF, i will be glad if I have more. It is a moment that i experienced quite few times, only one of the things was missing - animals or right light or right place. I am searching for such light all the time but very few times i had that all come together.
And the amount of beer I got

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Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on June 7, 2011 at 5:45 PM

this truly is magical! lovely light and rim-light and separation from the background...
like Vincent said, a wall hanger!

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Comment posted by Fabio Giarrizzo on June 7, 2011 at 6:26 PM

Beautiful image- Awesome warm light, gorgeous colours and a fine composition- My congrats, Fabio

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Comment posted by Richard Olsen on June 7, 2011 at 9:14 PM

A magical moment captured very well...one of the nicest giraffe photos i've ever viewed.
Like others have said "This belongs on a wall!"

Congrats!!

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Comment posted by kiran khanzode on June 8, 2011 at 1:58 PM

I love the moody lighting here, one really good image of Giraffes (tough to photograph artistically, imo)

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Comment posted by Sandipan Dutta on June 9, 2011 at 1:41 PM

Fantastic image ... love the light here ...

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Comment posted by Darren Colello on June 10, 2011 at 7:50 PM

Spectacular mood. This composition is absolutely beautiful. Well done!!!

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Comment posted by Ingrid Vekemans on June 11, 2011 at 12:00 PM

I love the light - very nice!

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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on June 12, 2011 at 3:45 AM

It has all been said ! It has painting like effect!
Jagdeep Rajput

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Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on June 15, 2011 at 8:39 AM

Just amazing Wow. Congratulations on the WP

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Comment posted by Ashley Vincent on June 16, 2011 at 1:11 AM

Congratulations Gorazd, well deserved :^)

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on June 16, 2011 at 6:32 AM

Very beautiful and compelling image!
Congrats on a great EP!
Sandy

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on June 16, 2011 at 4:50 PM

Congrats Gorazd

don't have too many

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Comment posted by Gorazd Golob on June 17, 2011 at 2:46 PM

Thank you all. Nate you know me, i never have too many of

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Gorazd

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Comment posted by Kory Lidstrom on June 22, 2011 at 12:13 AM

The light in this image is just incredible. It makes the whole image for me. Just beautiful.

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Comment posted by James Campbell on June 23, 2011 at 12:29 PM

Simply stunning, the light here is just beautiful - well captured

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Comment posted by Todd Liotine on July 20, 2011 at 12:27 PM

I think its all been said..great accomplishment

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