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  • Epupa falls gorge with rainbow, Epupa, Namibia<br /> <br /> This was a very challenging photographic situation due to the extremes of light and shadow. HDR doesn't work well on moving water, so the final image is a blend of 3 different tripod exposures, one for the highlights, one for the shadows and one for the mid-tones.
  • Gentoo penguin admiring her reflection, Saunders Island, Faulkland Islands
  • Running cheetah with all feet in the air, Otjiwarongo, Namibia<br /> <br /> The subject of this photo harkens back to the time of Eadweard Muybridge, the inventor of cinematography. In the late 1800s a debate raged about whether all four feet of a trotting horse are ever off the ground at the same time, and Muybridge was commissioned to look for a novel way to solve the question. He was hired by the railroad baron Leland Stanford to photograph Occident, one of his champion trotters, in motion. His photographs of the horse in 1878 (recently on exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London) proved that there is an instant when a running horse does, indeed, have all feet off the ground. This occurs in the horse, as well as in the cheetah, when the front legs extend back and the back legs extend forward, generating maximum power.<br /> <br /> Muybridge's high speed mechanical shutters were the prelude to the modern camera, and his invention of the zoopraxiscope to show his still pictures in rapid sequence were the prelude to cinema.
  • Naturally-occuring-fractals-3,-Etosha-Pan,-Namibia<br /> <br /> The rains dissolve the salts from this saline pan and as the rains dry, the encrusted salts outline the former water channels, while the larger lakes are drying from the edges. During the dry season the wildlife congregates at the remaining pools of water and the natural springs.
  • Cheetah in action at sunrise, Otjiwarongo, Namibia<br /> <br /> May not have time to post or comment during the next few days :-(
  • Up in the air
  • Best friends <br /> <br /> Marlice and her cheetah at sunset, Na'ankuse, Namibia. Cheetah are the most 'tameable' of the big cats when raised from a very young age, as this one was, but they are still wild animals. Marlice and her colleagues at the Na'ankuse Foundation have the skills and the proper facilities to take good care of the cheetahs and to rehabilitate them for release into the wild. (They have the loudest, most fantastic purr I have ever heard!!)
  • Backlit cheetah
  • Robin-eating-crab-apples,-Delta-Dyke,-Delta,-BC<br /> <br /> My newish Sigma lens (150-500 mm) had to go in for repair a couple of times since I bought it less than 12 months ago (aufofocus failure), so Sigma replaced it last week with a new lens. Thought I would take a break from editing my foreign photos and get out locally this weekend to check out the replacement lens. So far, so good. At the larger sizes, you can see the apple 'sauce' on the bird's beak.
  • Lilac-breasted-roller-about-to-fly, Okavango Delta, Botswana<br /> <br /> The lilac breast roller is one of the most colourful African birds. The bird is standing on one of the large light-coloured termite mounds that are common in the Okavango.
  • Mulberry-bark-paper-umbrellas,-Myanmar<br /> <br /> All parts of the umbrellas are hand made and assembled on site. One of the wonderful things about Myanmar are the large numbers of artisans who are crafting hand made items using skills that are rapidly being lost in the West.<br /> see the more saturated version here <br /> <a href="http://www.allenfotowild.com/DailyPhoto/Daily-1/27299569_MWnvgh#!i=2315921473&k=QT2R972">http://www.allenfotowild.com/DailyPhoto/Daily-1/27299569_MWnvgh#!i=2315921473&k=QT2R972</a>
  • Mulberry-bark-paper-umbrellas,-Myanmar<br /> <br /> All parts of the umbrellas are hand made and assembled on site. One of the wonderful things about Myanmar are the large numbers of artisans who are crafting hand made items using skills that are rapidly being lost in the West.
  • Oh, no!!! (alternate caption suggestions welcome - although I did reject couple of four letter words LOL - best at larger sizes)<br /> <br /> King penguin chicks (called *oakum boys) don't acquire their waterproof feathers for several weeks, and they avoid the water. This chick wandered a little too close to the water's edge and was caught by a large wave.<br /> *Oakum is a fibre used to caulk wooden sailing ships. The first sailors to the Antarctic thought the king penguin chicks look like heaps of oakum. It is made by stripping apart old worn-out, salf-encrusted hemp ropes from sailing ships. Making oakum qualifies as one of the worst jobs in the world, and it was usually done by the workhouse poor and prisoners.
  • Safest place in the world
  • Acehnese-beauty-in-traditional-wedding-finery,-Banda-Aceh,-Sumatra
  • Large bird, small fish
  • Intricate-temple-roof-with-squirrel- on-wire-v2,-Schwedagon-Pagoda,-Yangon,-Burma<br /> <br /> Version 2
  • Che Guevara wanna-be?, Havana, Cuba
  • Head of the 70 m long Reclining Buddha, Chaukhtatgi Temple, Yangon, Burma<br /> <br /> The statue is housed in a huge, warehouse-like building (see photo in the Yangon 2 gallery) that really distracts from the image, hence the black background.<br /> <br /> I've been neglecting the photos from my fantastic trip to Myanmar, so I'm now trying to find time to edit them.
  • Geyser-&-sulfur-rocks,-Yellowstone<br /> <br /> An other worldly landscape

  • Terry Allen

    on January 8, 2013

    This is version 2, which has been lightened up, as per Rick Willis' comment

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