Jackson's Hartebeest at Sunrise

Critiques [Translate]

•  
• gracious (13068)
• [2007-10-03 10:00]

Hello James,
Well captured on the Hartebeest in good DOF!
I loved the pose of it which can be clearly seen!
perfect clarity, natural colour and much details
thanks for sharing and the useful notes
cheers
Tony

•  
• jaycee (25428)
• [2007-10-03 10:42]

Hi James,

Wonderful capture of this fine looking animal. You caught him in a nice pose. Wonderful natural colors and details. Those antlers are something. A wonderful scene in those tall reeds.

Jane

•  
• PeterZ (35567)
• [2007-10-03 10:58]

Hello James,
Beautiful natural setting. Good DOF, POV, details, composition and sharpness.
Regards,
Peter

•  
• uleko (10802)
• [2007-10-03 11:24]

Hello James,
I can't recall seeing an antelope with such a strange shape of the head! Very interesting animal in a fine pose. Beautiful light and great sharpness. I like the way it is half-hidden in the tall grass with the heat-haze in the background. Excellent capture!
TFS and best wishes, Ulla

•  
• rousettus (19009)
• [2007-10-03 11:25]

Hi James,
after some Asian and papuan captures, another great shot of Hartebeest from Africa. Very beautiful and elegans gazella and its very nice photo with great focus, nicely composed. Details, colors very nice as like eyes contact. Good and informative notes. thanks.
best wishes
Ahmet

•  
• pirate (5312)
• [2007-10-03 11:40]

Hi James
lovely light, great compo and perfect sharpness
GREAT
Tfs
tom

•  
• joey (24881)
• [2007-10-03 12:06]

Hi James,
I always laugh when I see the looong face of the Hartebeast. They look so funny :D
A superb shot showing its unusual face perfectly.
+++ Sharp with good details. The go light from the sunrise causes the whole photo to have a beautiful golden hue. Great POV and pose.
--- Nothing :)
Well done,
Joe

•  
• CeltickRanger (26714)
• [2007-10-03 12:40]

hello James

Great photo with the framing and the pose of the animal,
excellent détails and beautiful colors
on the foreground of the image, TFS

Asbed

•  
• nglen (36105)
• [2007-10-03 12:44]

Hi James he had his eyes on you . You a so lucky to see so many fantastic animals i can only dram of seeing so thanks for posting them.
I like the natural light and colour in this one. and detail in the head of the Hartebeest.you can see the haeat in the back ground. well done TFS. great notes too.
Nick..

•  
• AnimalExplorer (1416)
• [2007-10-03 13:04]

Hey! Why the long Face? What a great looking animal James, and you did such a wonderful job capturing it on sensor. Nature is so cool! I love the diversity it has to offer. I envy your travel itinerary(sigh). Once again very nicely done. :)

•  
• Bufo (4247)
• [2007-10-03 13:18]

Hi James,
it's an ever surprise where the next location will be. It's just a small leap from spitsbergen to Uganda. THis is a very good picture of this hartebeest, with the background showing the wideness of the area. I allways wonderded why it is called hartebeest. Would that be related to a dutch name? Hartebeast could mean heart or hard animal. Anyhow, I don't see it.
Well seen and captured.
Regards, Jacob

•  
• claudine (0)
• [2007-10-03 14:41]

Hello James,
I think this is the first time I see this specie! What a strange long face he has :) This is a beautiful capture with great eye contact and lovely natural environment. Thanks!
Claudine

•  
• Necipp (100)
• [2007-10-03 15:56]

Hello James wonderfull shot beautifull great light and contrast nice background and dof tfs rgds Necip

•  
• Juyona (16891)
• [2007-10-03 16:21]

Hola James,
bella foto,
espléndido retrato y pov,
agradable trabajo,
saludos

•  
• Adanac (20976)
• [2007-10-03 19:15]

Hello James,
Thanks for sharing this strange looking beast, superbly captured while on yet another of your great trips.
Cheers

Rick

•  
• PeterDF (0)
• [2007-10-03 20:15]

A very beautiful photo of this wonderful Hartebeest. Great colors and lighting and a really classic African setting. Very nicely done.

•  
• haraprasan (20369)
• [2007-10-04 1:52]

Hi James,
A beautiful capture of this Antelope. Nice composition with very good details and well positioned in the frame. Thanks a lot for sharing.

•  
• alguazul (713)
• [2007-10-04 4:26]

Beautiful light. I like how the Hartebeest is placed in the tall grasses. The composition is also very good.

PS: I have been looking at your locations map... Impressive. Just a few countries in the world to complete the whole world..

•  
• fragman (30002)
• [2007-10-04 13:42]

great composition, TFS Ori

•  
• Mana (18576)
• [2007-10-04 23:17]

Hi James,
Just marking this shot and will come back later with a proper critique. Sorry Sir, tied up with an important assignment.
Regards.
Sumon

•  
• anel (30643)
• [2007-10-05 5:01]

hello James,
What an interesting animal, what a strange face. I never had seen this one before. Excellent composition, nice morning light, making the whole scene almolst unreal. Well seen.
Thanks and best regards
Anne

•  
• Alex99 (22404)
• [2007-10-06 7:59]

Hi James.
Sweet shot. I love it so much. So attractive animal. Its pose and glance are amazing. Your superb lens work is great too. Excellent details and sharpness of the animal image, lovely warm sunlight and dry grass colours. Superb three levels of sharpness-blurriness. Bravo and TFS.
Alexei.

•  
• loot (11187)
• [2008-01-20 22:36]
• [3] [+]

Hi James

Thus far I thought I was doing "pretty" well, having visited and displaying photos from 4 of my country's 9 provinces (chuckle). That was of course until I came across your impressive list of 168 countries visited and displaying photos from 57 different countries on TN. Very impressive to say the least and probably the record holder on the site. Seems like you could qualify for the title "Global Citizen Numero Uno". Keep going man...

While working on my theme "African Rare Antelope" I found some interesting information on the "Hartebeest" which you might appreciate. The hartebeest group is something of a taxonomist's nightmare so I will not pretend to know much, but hopefully with this research I may provide a little insight related to these fascinating animals.

Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates).
Family: Bovidae (cloven-hoofed mammals).
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae (hartebeest, tsessebe, topi, bontebok, & wildebeest).

Genus Alcelaphus - "Common" Hartebeest group:
Red hartebeest - Alcelaphus buselaphus caama (substantial)
Western hartebeest - Alcelaphus buselaphus major (substantial)
Lelwel hartebeest - Alcelaphus buselaphus lelwel (substantial)
Coke's hartebeest - Alcelaphus buselaphus cokei (substantial)
Jackson's hartebeest - Alcelaphus buselaphus jacksoni (rare)
Tora hartebeest - Alcelaphus buselaphus tora (endangered)
Swayne's hartebeest - Alcelaphus buselaphus swaynei (endangered)

Genus Beatragus - Hirola:
Hunter's hartebeest - Beatragus hunteri (rare)

Genus Damaliscus - Species less commonly known as "Hartebeest"
Senegal hartebeest - Damaliscus lunatus korrigum (rare)
Tiang hartebeest - Damaliscus lunatus tiang (substantial)
This group also contains the closely related Tsessebe, Topi, Bontebok, and Blesbok.
Tsessebe - Damaliscus lunatus lunatus
Topi - Damaliscus lunatus jimela
Bontebok - Damaliscus dorcas dorcas
Blesbok - Damaliscus dorcas phillipsi

Genus Sigmoceros - Only one species:
Lichtenstein's hartebeest - Sigmoceros lichtensteini (substantial)
Some researchers suggest that there is some justification for including this as a subspecies of the Common hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus).

Genus Connochaetes - Wildebeest:
Black wildebeest - Connochaetes gnou
Blue wildebeest - Connochaetes taurinus

Anyway, back to your photo. I like the way you captured this guy between the tall grasses. Looking back over its shoulder and making eye contact adds to the impact of the shot. They have the most amazing yellow eyes. The exposure was well controlled and the colours are great.

Well done and TFS.
Regards
Loot