There are too many shots I love and I just returned to revisit the thread now and then to experience Namibia from your shots. Till now, these few shots really captured my attention.
#5 has so much potential for Nat Geo. Any more angles of the capture and feeding? Predator and prey at its best.
#23 and #24 just show how amazing nature is. Can't wait to see more shots man. But come slow and steady, so as to let us slowly feed ice cream to our eyes. Lol...
Bro, thanks for your comments.
This next one is for you
I wish you were the editor of Nat Geo, so I could have had my two seconds of fame. ha ha ha... I am quite fine without it lah...
I just checked. I had shot 64 photos of this scene - some when the lioness was drinking at the waterhole forever (and I had no clue there was a springbok next to her that she had killed), some when she got up and had grabbed the springbok by its neck (I let out an "Oh my GOD !!!") and was dragging away, some when she dropped it and looked all around - including an "imaginary" glare towards me, some when she was in tall grass and finally when she settled down to rest...
Unfortunately, I couldn't dictate to this model to pose for me in good light and grab the prey this way or that - he he he - so, I was totally at her mercy...
34. Another view of the kill...
35. Sunset over moon landscape...
There is one section of the Welwitschia drive near Swakopmund that has very nice features. Its called the Moon landscape (I doubt that the moon has such landscapes - having seen photos of the moon on the internet and in books). Anyways...
This day I had driven a very long distance, constantly changing plans and routes based on my instinct.
Add to that the fatigue from photographing the lunar eclipse late into the night, the previous night.
Add to that, the fact that I had done a stupid thing by not going to Swakopmund and checking into my hotel (I had decided that if I had done that, I would've had less time at the Welwitschia Drive and might've missed the sunset), so I never knew the location of my pitstop for the night.
In addition, I had heard that Swakop was a rough town, darkness would set in soon and I would be driving into town in darkness.
And then, I had a momentary lapse of concentration.
The gravel road was empty and I was probably driving only at 40kmph or so. But as I drove through a bend, I went too far in and hit a patch of dust. All of a sudden, I lost control of the vehicle. It swerved this way, then that, this way, then that - I said my last prayers as I desperately tried to regain control of the vehicle. I knew that one more swerve and the vehicle would flip. Probably that last prayer worked because, miraculously, the vehicle stabilised by itself. I was shaking all over. I stopped and thanked my lucky stars that there was no vehicle coming from the opposite side or else I wouldn't have been around to share what would've been the last sunset of this life
I had a similar flirt with death in Iceland in March, when my friend lost control of the 4WD and we spun 360 degrees twice before landing in almost knee/waist deep snow in the ditch next to the road.
I am not tempting fate a third time around, this year :bsmilie:
This photo below could've been my last sunset. That's the value of this image to me. Not sure what its worth to the viewers...