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The Good Feathers


The Good Feathers
Photo Information
Copyright: Johan Swanepoel (duckpond) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 89 W: 29 N: 74] (323)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-12-10
Categories: Mammals
Camera: Canon 350D / Digital Rebel XT, Canon 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Exposure: f/8, 1/125 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-01-04 16:10
Viewed: 1263
Points: 9
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The title is inspired by 3 pigeons in cartoons I used to watch when I was still a yung'in. They used to roam around and act like the bird mafia. These guys with their pin-stripe suits can easily pass for the horse mafia.

Facts about Zebras
1. They are members of the horse family
2. The stripes serve to confuse predators and apparently also the tsetse fly (I did not know that)
3. Zebras sometimes cross breeds with other members of the horse family and you end up with zorses and zeedonks (Sounds a bit like a Douglas Adams novel)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra)

Shot Details:
I like this shot because of the way that all three of the zebras are looking at the camera. It also has rythm and seems to have some progression with the zebras turning towards the camera from left to right.

Exposure Time: 1/125 sec
F-Stop: f/8.0
ISO Speed Ratings: 200
Focal Length: 300/1 mm
Date Taken: 2005-12-10 10:05
Place: The Krugersdorp Nature Reserve

Post Processing
1. Cropped
2. Slight USM
3. As almost always levels.

Hope you like it?
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Lovely image, they do like like mafioso. I just wish it was a touch sharper. Well seen!

Alli

  • Great 
  • Graal Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 788 W: 31 N: 20] (4998)
  • [2006-01-05 2:04]

Hi Johan,
very nice three zebras. Good capture. I like the colours also. Interesting note.
Rgs, Aleksander

Hi Johan,
it's wonderful to see these beautiful animals in wild nature. I love them standing together, it's a nice arrangement, thanks
Sabine - wishnugaruda

Hi, Johan. Great image. You were lucky to get them all looking toward you at the same time. Great.

  • Good 
  • Pieter (12)
  • [2006-01-09 9:28]

Hello

Nice shot. Could be a bit sharper. I would have been even better if the wildebeest was not in the photo.

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