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26 images Created 13 Jan 2012

At Night

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  • Scorpion (a Kalahari Burrower -Opistophthalmus wahlbergii) revealed in the darkness of the night by a UV light.
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  • An adult Barn Owl (Tyto alba) taking a break on its nightly hunt.<br />
Ghostly pale and normally strictly nocturnal, Barn Owls are predators of the night. These very successful hunters have excellent low-light vision, but it is their impressive hearing, aided by their satellite-dish-shaped faces, that enable Barn Owls to locate mice and other rodents even in total darkness. This species’ eerie screeching call, a long-drawn-out shriek, is unmistakable and a familiar night-time sound in the Kgalagadi.
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  • Three members of a Barn Owl family in their favourite tree.<br />
Ghostly pale and normally strictly nocturnal, Barn Owls are predators of the night. These very successful hunters have excellent low-light vision, but it is their impressive hearing, aided by their satellite-dish-shaped faces, that enable Barn Owls to locate mice and other rodents even in total darkness. This species’ eerie screeching call, a long-drawn-out shriek, is unmistakable and a familiar night-time sound in the Kgalagadi.
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  • Night scene in the Quiver Tree Forest.
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  • Night scene in the Quiver Tree Forest.
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  • Me, all by himself, at a campfire under a huge Baobab and the Milky Way on an uninhabited island somewhere in Sowa Pan in wild Botswana. This is the reason why I am a Nature Photographer!<br />
But am I truly 'Alone?' When you are camping next to a babobab, you are not alone; these trees have souls...
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  • n summer lightning storms commonly occur in the Kalahari. Photographing them however is not that easy and conditions simply have to be a bit in your favour. In this case we were lucky to find ourselves in such a situation whereby it helped that the storm was in the distance, that it was not raining where we were, nor that there was too much wind to complicate matters even more. The only thing that disturbed us and gave us a bit of a fright was an animal on the run passing closely by in the pitch dark night.<br />
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Lightning bolts are never following one another frequently enough when you are trying to capture them and also in this case I already knew that the most spectacular image would be the result of several exposures blended together.<br />
This image was created out of 6 different exposures, all 30 seconds @ f/2.8, ISO 250 and 400 for the lightning bolts and ISO 2500 for the stars.
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  • The full moon rises behind a a kalahari thunderstorm with lightning bolts
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  • Rhodes' Baobab with startrails
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  • Dawn over Gaborone City, Botswana
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  • It was the fierce wind on the very top of Kgale Hill that made it feel as if it were below zero. What kept me going in this horrible cold was the sheer beauty of this dawn as well as the technical challenges imposed on me by the wind and darkness. Doesn't Gaborone City look peaceful when it is still half asleep?
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  • Church ruins at full moon.
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  • Baobab and star trails<br />
(Highly Commended in the Landscape Category in the 2012 Botswana WPOTY)
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  • Baobab trees at night
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  • Baobab trees at night
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  • Lightning storm under a starry sky
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  • Summer lightning storm over the Nxai Pan National Park
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  • Bush fires at night under the Milky Way
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  • Quiver trees (Aloe dichotoma) and Star Trails
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  • Quiver tree branches pointing up towards a starry sky
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  • Quiver tree (Aloe dichotoma) and Star Trails
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  • Quiver trees (Aloe dichotoma) and the Milky Way.<br />
(International Photography Awards (IPA) 2011, 3rd Place in Landscape Category<br />
FujiFilm/Getaway Awards 2010, Certificate in the Landscapes & Plants Category.)
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  • Quiver tree (Aloe dichotoma) and Star Trails
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  • Thunder storm with lightning bolts at night over Kalahari pan
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  • Thunder storm with lightning bolts at night over Kalahari pan
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  • Lightning storm over Gaborone
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