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Safari
I am a photographer trapped in another job: trapped because I cannot with a good conscience abandon my patients and student to indulge my passion for painting with light. Not at least, full time. But I can take time-out. Each year my wife and I take several brief breaks within Australia (our home) to spend a few days or maybe a couple of weeks indulging our shared thirst to see and record the world around us. And every second year we try to spend a month or so overseas. In 1995 we made our first trip to Africa. As tourists, we really didn't expect to get very close to the wildlife; we were absolutely astonished to discover that the safaris we booked from home placed us with just one other couple and a guide so close to lions, cheetah, buffalo... everything we wished for, that we could have touched them. Literally. Yes, I was glad to have packed my long lenses, but I found myself shooting rhino with my 50mm lens and filling the frame! Often, I had to change to a shorter focal length because the lion cubs were too close, or the elephants too large through the longer lenses. The light, the landscape and the skies were so much like Australia in places that I expected to see kangaroos; and then a gazelle or a herd of kudu would wander into shot, or a baby zebra, still clothed in childhood's brown and white rather than the adult black stripes we are used to. We spent too little time in Africa (mostly in Kenya) before traveling on to Ireland where everything was so different ~ except for the hospitality. And legendary though Irish hospitality is, it came second to the Kenyans in that department, too. It makes me so sad and angry to see, night after night on the evening news, so much despair in such a wonderful place, and so much pain inflicted on such a beautiful people. |
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This intel was contributed by David Rich
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