Night Lights......

There have been a few great electrical storms for the beginning of the season, so I decided to grab the camera and get some.

Camera - Canon Eos 20D
Lens - Canon 15mm - 85mm EF f3.5 - 5.6
Aperture - f8
Shutter Speed - 25 Sec
ISO - 100

Get out there and Keep Shooting!

Jackal Buzzard Close-up

Camera - Canon Eos 7D    
Lens - Canon 100mm-400mm EF-L
Aperture - f/5.6
Shutter - 1/800 sec
ISO - 200

Get out there and keep on Shooting!

Pixoto's No:1 image for September 2011.

I have recently joined a photographic dueling website called Pixoto. You upload your best images in certain categories that are then voted for against other photographers images. This is done per week, then per month and then annually. Some truly incredible photography to be seen on this site and a great way for up coming photographers to get recognized.
The following image is one that I uploaded in September and won first place in the wildlife category.

Camera - Canon Eos 7D
Lens - Canon 100mm-400mm EF-L
Aperture - f/6.3
Shutter Speed - 1/30 sec
ISO - 200
Bounced Flash for fill.

Go and checkout Pixoto's webpage (http://www.pixoto.com/contest). Some really cool images and some great photographers.

Get out there and Keep Shooting ! ! !

FULL LUNAR ECLIPSE..................VERY NICE! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Last Night, those of you who had clear skies and were looking up at the night sky would have witnessed something quite incredable! The Moon was 100% eclipsed by the Earth and was only seen over Africa. This will happen again over Africa as we saw it in another 230 odd years, so this was truly once in a life time!!!

I know that many of my picture crazy friends were out there to try grab some great images and hope that they got lucky. Here are some of the 600 odd images I took last night. Enjoy!

This is how the evening started!!!!

Camera - Canon Eos 7D

Lens - Canon 100mm-400mm EF-L

Aperture - f/10

Shutter Speed - 1/125 sec

ISO - 1600

The next series of images show the start of the Eclipse until full Eclipse was reached at about 21h30, 1 hour after it began!!

 

And then once the Eclipse was full and everything went dark I started playing! ! ! The large bright spot in the sky is the moon at full eclipse and in most of the following images you can see it sitting in the middle of the Milkyway!

Camera - Canon Eos 7D

Lens - Canon 15mm - 85mm EF f 3.5-5.6

Aperture - f/4

Shutter Speed - 18 sec

Iso - 3200

Camera - Canon Eos 7D

Lens - Canon 50mm EF-L f 1.4

Aperture - f/1.4

Shutter Speed - 10 sec

ISO - 4000

Get out there and keep Shooting! ! !

FULL MOON ! ! !

 

Camera - Canon Eos 7D

Lens -  Canon 100mm - 400mm EF-L f 4.5 - 5.6

Aperture - f5.6

Shutter Speed - 1/2500

ISO - 800

Get out there and Keep Shooting! ! !

Wild Wildebeest !

Just Messing around with movement realy, hoping to get something interesting. These next images are not quite what I was looking for but interesting none the less.

Jesus Birds ! ! ! ! !

Macro.................. Got to Love It! !

Been playing around with a little Macro Photography again. All the following images were shot with my trusty Canon 7D and 100mm-400mm EFL lens and 5X diopter attachement.





Young Male Lion.........!

Another shitty African Sunset..............!

Why we love it here!

PLAYING WITH MACRO AGAIN........! ! !

Had a little fun the other day with some Pixie Caterpillars and a Scarlet Drop-wing Dragonfly. It took a bit of patience with the Drop-wing but I think worth it.