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  • When shooting in rain (and in Botswana we don't get that chance too often, so I am no expert) there are basically two different approaches; one is to use a slow enough shutter speed to blur the rain drops, creating streaks, or two, to use a high shutter speed and freeze the rain drops. The first approach is the more common one. In this case, however, there was enough light due to the conditions, an incoming local storm shower in the late afternoon, resulting in a rainbow against a dark sky plus raindrops reflecting the sunlight. When a fleeting moment like that occurs you are desperate for a subject in the right place and simply have to be thankful for whatever you can find, even if it is not entirely as you had envisaged or dreamt of. Shooting in these conditions was not easy, but a few seconds later shooting was near impossible as it bucketed down..
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  • Two Mountain Gorillas ineffectvely trying to shelter from the rain amongst a stand of bamboo.
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  • Rain falls from a dramatic cloud over Botswana's Nxai Pan, making a gorgeous backdrop for this Bull Elephant.
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  • Rain falls from a dramatic cloud over Botswana's Nxai Pan, making a gorgeous backdrop for this Bull Elephant.
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  • This Tawny Eagle seemed to really dislike rain! Now, I am not too fond of it myself, but it can produce interesting images. Although technically not perfect due to a rather challenging lighting situation I still liked the end result.
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  • Close up of falling rain from a local stormcloud over the KAA area of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the rainy season.
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  • Threathening rain clouds hover above an empty and dry Mabuasehube Pan in the Kgalagadi.
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  • A rain shower is coloured orange when the setting sun dips below a dark kalahari storm cloud.
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  • Herd of zebra in the rain under a colorful rainbow
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  • Male Reedbuck in the pouring rain
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  • Leopard Tortoise in the rain
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  • Summer rain unleashes from a massive cloud mass over a Kalahari pan at dusk.
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  • Threathening rain clouds hover above an empty and dry Mabuasehube Pan in the Kgalagadi.
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  • Leopard Tortoise in the rain
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  • Rainclouds and local showers at sunset over the vast Makgadikgadi Pans
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  • Tight intimate portrait of a Silverback Gorilla in the rain
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  • Herd of bunched up zebras stand in the pouring rain.
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  • Rainclouds and local showers at sunset over the vast Makgadikgadi Pans
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  • Tight intimate portrait of a Silverback Gorilla in the rain
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  • Wild rain clouds with faint rainbow above an empty and dry Mabuasehube Pan with dustdevil in the Kgalagadi.
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  • Leopard tortoise drinking from a rainwater puddle in the Nossob Riverbed
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  • Leopard tortoise drinking from a rainwater puddle in the Nossob Riverbed
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  • Herd of bunched up zebras stand in the pouring rain.
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  • Rainclouds and sunset over Khutse Pan
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  • An Elephant mother and her calf welcoming the first rains after a destructive and long drought at Amboseli National Park, Kenya.
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  • A threathening rain clouds hovers above an empty and dry Mabuasehube Pan in the Kgalagadi.
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  • Rain clouds at sunset above the Nossob river valley.
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  • In the heart of Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango Delta two male lions are patrolling their territory in the rain.
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  • Colourfuls dusky sky reflected in the rain puddles left on the track through the Nossob River Valley in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
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  • It is not an every day occurrence to see a Giant Eagle Owl wading through water! On my recent visit to the Kgalagdi Transfrontier Park I had a serious thunderstorm at night and the first thing I came across after I eagerly started my morning drive was this big bird enjoying the refreshing rain puddles. Shooting was a challenge with the light being still very low, but at least this old wise owl was not bothered by my presence and I managed to get a few images of this unique sighting.
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  • Dramatic stormy sky at sunset over the Kalahari plains of the KAA area of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the rainy season.
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  • A partial rainbow shows up in a stormy sky above the rolling dune landscape in the Kgalagadi.
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  • A partial rainbow shows up in a stormy sky above the rolling dune landscape in the Kgalagadi.
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  • Portrait of Mark, the dominant Silverback Gorilla of the habituated group at Mgahinga National Park, Uganda, with a wet fur coat.
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  • Sunrise over the vast open empty flats of the Makgadikgadi Pans.
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  • Dramatic sunset in the Kgalagadi
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  • A partial rainbow shows up in a stormy sky above the rolling dune landscape in the Kgalagadi.
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  • A giraffe on the Kalahari Plains poses for a vibrant picture.
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  • Dramatic stormy sky unleashing a local downpour over the grass-covered Makgadikgadi plains.
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  • Herd of giraffe on the Sunday Pan in the CKGR, Botswana.
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  • Lonely springbok lamb in kalahari landscape
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  • Springbok grazing in the Deception Valley under a dark sky
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  • Giraffe walking in kalahari landscape
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  • Herd of giraffe on the Piper Pans in the CKGR, Botswana. A summer rainstorm created the mood that is so typical for the Kalahari in summer. I used an ultra wide-angle lens to capture the vastness of the scene.
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  • Giraffe walking in kalahari landscape
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  • Double rainbow at sunset over Kalahari landscape.
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  • Rainbow in baobab landscape
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  • Herd of giraffe on the Piper Pans in the CKGR, Botswana. A summer rainstorm created the mood that is so typical for the Kalahari in summer. I used an ultra wide-angle lens to capture the vastness of the scene.
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  • Rainbow in baobab landscape
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  • A dramatic local thundershower complete with double partial rainbow comes rolling in over the Nossob River Valley in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
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  • Herd of giraffe on the Piper Pans in the CKGR, Botswana. A summer rainstorm created the mood that is so typical for the Kalahari in summer. I used an ultra wide-angle lens to capture the vastness of the scene.
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  • Double rainbow in the spray of the Vicoria Falls
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  • Giraffes at waterhole in kalahari landscape
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  • Giraffes at waterhole in kalahari landscape
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  • Giraffes in shimmering hot kalahari pan
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  • Giraffe walking in kalahari landscape
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  • Rainbow in baobab landscape
    VGR_20080510_8068.jpg
  • Dramatic stormy sky over the grass-covered Makgadikgadi plains.
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  • A dramatic local thundershower complete with double partial rainbow comes rolling in over the Nossob River Valley in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
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  • A dramatic local thundershower complete with double partial rainbow comes rolling in over the Nossob River Valley in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
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  • Lonely springbok lamb in kalahari landscape
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  • Giraffes at waterhole in kalahari landscape
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  • Giraffes at waterhole in kalahari landscape
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  • Giraffe at waterhole in kalahari landscape.<br />
(Fujifilm/Getaway competition 2009, Certificate Category Animal General)
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  • Elephants and zebras at a water hole in Nxai Pan at sunset.
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  • A dramatic local thundershower complete with double partial rainbow comes rolling in over the Nossob River Valley in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
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  • Herd of giraffe on the Piper Pans in the CKGR, Botswana. A summer rainstorm created the mood that is so typical for the Kalahari in summer. I used an ultra wide-angle lens to capture the vastness of the scene.
    VGR_20130207_7873.jpg
  • Herd of giraffe on the Piper Pans in the CKGR, Botswana. A summer rainstorm created the mood that is so typical for the Kalahari in summer. I used an ultra wide-angle lens to capture the vastness of the scene.
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  • Giraffes walking away in shimmering hot kalahari pan
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  • Giraffes in shimmering hot kalahari pan
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  • Rainbow in baobab landscape
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  • Two Wildebeest in the dry Nossob Riverbed landscape.
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  • Large male elephant and zebras on the dusty plains of Nxai Pan awaiting the rain that is about to come.
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  • The Victoria Falls seen through a gap in the dense rain forest habitat.
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  • An old Gemsbok bull at rest as a summer rain storm approaches, advanced by  wind and white dust
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  • Male and female dragonfly attached as they are depositing eggs in a rain water puddle
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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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  • A Gemsbok herd in the CKGR is desperate for the summer rains to start and bring green grass onto the dry dusty kalahari plains.
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  • I recently commented to one of my photography buddies in reply to his remark that he wants interesting subjects to shoot, that since he is a good photographer he can create art with any animal subject, even a mouse! <br />
To illustrate my point here I remembered I was shooting some very ordinary and common ground squirrels in Khutse earlier this year. All the squirrels did was eat, but what made the scene was the abundance wild flowering Vlei Lilies. These beautiful flowers grow only for a couple of days so my timing, shortly after the first rains of the season, was perfect.
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  • Shortly after the first rains, the thoroughly intriguing Giant African Millipede (Archispirostreptus gigas), a.k.a. Shongololo, has emerged from its safe hide-out underground - to feed and to breed. These herbivorous invertebrates are generally harmless creatures, but they do secrete a chemical  substance containing cyanide. This is a defense mechanism against ants and other insects as well as some insect-eating mammals. Its primary defense is to roll up in a tight coil.
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  • Remarkably, a dead looking broken small Mopipi tree starts to show new growth even before the rains have commenced this rainy season in the Khutse game reserve.
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  • A landscape photographer, my friend Johan, at work at the spectacular Epupa Falls in Namibia one glorious morning in February with the falls in flood after the recent rains.
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  • African Elephant Bull (Loxodonta Africana).Nxai Pan National Park
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  • A beautiful young Cheetah walks on a carpet of little bright yellow flowers of the ‘Devil's thorn’ (Tribulus terrestris); this explosion of colour follows shortly after the first summer rains have fallen.
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  • After good rains the clay soil of the Nossob River Valley retains puddles for longer, attracting the animals from far to quench their thirst.
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