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42 images Created 23 May 2011

Winners

Images by Vincent Grafhorst that were successful in various degrees in nature photography competitions such as Nature's Best, BBC WPOTY, Lucie International Photography Awards (IPA), Getaway/Fujifilm and more.
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  • A single grey heron stands motionless in the shallow waters of the immense Sua Pan salt flats painted with colourful soft pastel hues at dusk; a scene of pure serenity.
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  • A fiery summer sunset scene in a Kalahari Pan strewn with flowering wild Vlei Lilies.
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  • This is why I love the rainy season in Botswana so much; it offers the opportunity to see incredibly dramatic scenes such as these.<br />
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A storm cloud formation with rainbow at sunset above a lone Mopipi Tree in the beautiful Moreswa Pan in the Kalahari's Khutse Game Reserve.
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  • Female leopard fighting with a honey badger
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  • Bull elephant wading through the Chobe River
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  • A group of large bull elephants covered in white mud stand motionless like life size statues around a waterhole in the barren landscape of Etosha National Park. A passing dust devil set the mood and provided an opportunity for a unique scene. The image begged for a B&W conversion, particularly since it makes the dust devil stand out even better due to the black on white contrast. I only wish I would have been able to direct the elephants into a compositionally better grouping and more attractive individual poses, but they did not want to listen.
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  • Reflection of a giraffe in rippled water surface
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  • Low POV from below an elephant
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  • Bull elephant swimming in the Chobe River at dusk
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  • Four silhouetted elephants walking on the floodplains of the Chobe River.
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  • Two big elephant bulls on the Chobe River
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  • Rhodes' Baobab with startrails
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  • Rhodes' Baobab
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  • We were very privileged to witness the birth of a zebra foal during a Nxai Pan visit. The best image opportunities presented themselves after the actual birth when the mare was licking her young that was instinctively learning to balance on its four legs. Amazingly it could walk with ease within 15-20 minutes or so. Whilst all this was going on the lions were roaring only a few hundred meters away...<br />
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Location: Nxai Pan NP, Botswana.<br />
Techs:<br />
Camera Model Canon EOS 1D Mark IV<br />
Shutter Speed 1/800 Sec.<br />
Aperture Value f/8<br />
ISO Speed 400<br />
Lens EF500mm f/4L IS USM + 1.4xTC, Beanbag<br />
Crop is 85% of original
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  • 'Reflections of Baines'.<br />
The inspirational clump of Baobabs on the fringe of the Kudiakam Pan complex in the Nxai Pan National Park that was immortalized by and named after famous explorer/artist Thomas Baines, cast their reflections in a seasonally flooded Kudiakam Pan. This image was the winning submission in the landscape category in the Botswana 'Images for Conservation' photo competition 2013.
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  • Baines' Baobabs in the wet season
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  • Fighting wild horses in the Namib Desert
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  • African Elephant Cow (Loxodonta Africana) having a refreshing dust bath.
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  • Hyena with blood stained face
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  • Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) silhouetted against a sunset.<br />
(Finalist in the Nature's Best Photography Competition 2011; image appears on 2013 AWF -African Wildlife Foundation- Calendar)
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  • Baobab and star trails<br />
(Highly Commended in the Landscape Category in the 2012 Botswana WPOTY)
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  • African Elephant Bull (Loxodonta Africana)
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  • Lightning storm under a starry sky
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  • Bush fires at night under the Milky Way
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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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  • shepherd's tree on the Nossob riverbed dunecrest silhouetted against a fiery summer sunset sky
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  • Ant-eating Chat feasting on termite alates.<br />
(Fujifilm/Getaway competition 2010, 2nd Runner-up Category Sasol Birds;<br />
Finalist in the BBC/ Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2010)
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  • Lioness (Panthera leo) peeping through bushes.
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  • Thunder storm with lightning bolts at sunset over Kalahari pan
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  • Giraffe at waterhole in kalahari landscape.<br />
(Fujifilm/Getaway competition 2009, Certificate Category Animal General)
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  • Immature Lanner falcons fighting.<br />
(Captured Experiences Competition 2010- 3rd Place Category Action & Behaviour)
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  • Silhouette of a steenbok running on dune ridge.<br />
(Certificate in the Fujifilm/Getaway competition 2009, Animal General Category)
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  • Brants's Whistling Rat peeping from burrow
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  • Close-up of wildebeest eye
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  • Black-backed jackal scaring off vultures at wildebeest carcass
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  • Close-up of Red-billed quelea flock in flight.<br />
(Certificate in the Fujifilm/Getaway competition 2009, Certificate in the Sasol Birds Category)
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  • Tourists walking on Baobabs Alley at sunset with lily strewn rice field in the foreground.<br />
(Fujifilm/Getaway competition 2008, Certificate in the People in Nature Category)
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  • Fossa in the bush.<br />
(Finalist in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2009)
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  • baby vervet monkey hanging upside down under its mother.<br />
(Highly Honored Winner in the 2009 Nature's Best Windland Smith Rice Photography Competition, Category: Animal Antics)
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  • Animal track leading to a waterhole in a pan in Khama Rhino Sanctuary.<br />
(Certificate in the Fujifilm/Getaway competition 2008, Landscapes & Plants Category)
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  • Wasp robber fly with termite prey
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