Giraffe at the water hole

[Steve Kaluski]

• Steve Kaluski
• www.untamedimages.co.uk
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 14.2 (Macintosh)

Perhaps one of the most nervous of subjects coming to another water hole and from my memory not posted before. It took almost 45 mins for this adult to venture to the pan, the other two adolecence who were dying to have a drink, never got to sample the water, way too nervous.

Subject: Male Giraffe coming to drink
Location: Africa
Camera: Canon EOS R5
Lens: RF 70-200f/2.8 L IS II USM
Exposure: 1/3200 at f/8 ISO1600
Original format: Portrait, FF width, sight crop at top

Thanks to those who viewed or posted a comment on the previous image

 

[Jonathan Ashton]

Your patience was well rewarded, I really like the positioning of the three giraffee. The adolesents form an ideal frame for the adult, the images is full of impact. Colours tones etc spot on.

 

[Brian Sump]

Such a fun image Steve!

I just love the use of thirds here and the asymmetric symmetry with the two youths framing daddy drinking, but at different heights to boot.

A story told. Well seen, nicely done!