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  • Black storm rolling in over kalahari pan
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  • The Black Storm
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  • Lightning storm over Gaborone
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  • Female leopard lying in the shade of a large camelthorn tree in a passing dust storm.
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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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  • Seeing an electric Kalahari lightning storm unfold in the distance over the open Kalahari landscape, mostly in the late afternoons, is a sight to behold. Being in the middle of one on the other hand can be downright terrifying! At the commencement of the rainy season the first local thunderstorms start to occur, which can set the dry bush ablaze.
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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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  • Lightning storm at dusk over the Kalahari Plains
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  • Summer lightning storm over the Nxai Pan National Park
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  • Thunder storm with lightning bolts at sunset over Kalahari pan
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  • Thunder storm with lightning bolts at sunset over Kalahari pan
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  • A summer thunder storm approaches in the Kgalagadi.
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  • Lightning storm under a starry sky
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  • Vlei lilies (Nerina laticoma) in a Kalahari Pan with a dramatic stormy sky.
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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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  • Thunder storm with lightning bolts at night over Kalahari pan
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  • Thunder storm with lightning bolts at sunset over Kalahari pan
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  • Thunder storm with lightning bolts at night over Kalahari pan
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  • Thunder storm with lightning bolts at sunset over Kalahari pan
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  • Advancing lightning storm over the Kalahari at night.
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  • Double rainbow on the frontier of an incoming summer storm over the Nossob River Valley
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  • Thunder storm with many lightning bolts at night over the Kalahari desert.
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  • Dramatic storm cloud formation and rainbow at sunset Moreswe Pan in the Kalahari
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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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  • Thunder storm with lightning bolts at sunset over Kalahari pan
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  • 'Clash of the Titans'<br />
Dramatic stormy sky at sunset over the Kalahari plains of the Khutse Game Reserve at the end of the rainy season.
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  • 'The Conjurance'<br />
Over the years Khutse has been incredibly productive for me when it comes to dramatic skies; the Kalahari is true big sky country! <br />
Here is my favorite of another epic scene that unfolded during a sunset on my last trip.
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  • Dramatic stormy sky at sunset over the Kalahari plains of the Khutse Game Reserve at the end of the rainy season.
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  • Stormy sky at sunset over the verdant green plains of the Kalahari at the end of the rainy season.
    VGR_20170413_4153-HDR.tif
  • Stormy sky at sunset over the verdant green plains of the Kalahari at the end of the rainy season.
    VGR_20170413_4170-HDR.tif
  • Colourful stormy sky at sunset over the verdant green plains of the Kalahari at the end of the rainy season.
    VGR_20170413_4196-HDR.tif
  • Colourful stormy sky at sunset over the verdant green plains of the Kalahari at the end of the rainy season.
    VGR_20170413_4211-HDR.tif
  • 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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  • Sunrise over the vast open empty flats of the Makgadikgadi Pans.
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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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  • Long exposure of a moving stormy sky at sunset over a Kalahari pan.
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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_1618.jpg
  • Dramatic stormy sky unleashing a local downpour over the grass-covered Makgadikgadi plains.
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  • Distant lightning at dusk over the Kalahari bush
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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
    VGR_20180127_3116B&Wn.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.
    VGR_20130207_7873_B&W_400x600_ALU.jpg
  • A dramatic local thundershower complete with double partial rainbow comes rolling in over the Nossob River Valley in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
    VGR_20180127_3116B&W5.jpg
  • Distant lightning at dusk over the Kalahari bush
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  • Wild stormy sky at sunset over a kalahari pan.
    VGR_20171001_7306-HDR.tif
  • Dramatic sunset in the Kgalagadi
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  • The full moon rises behind a a kalahari thunderstorm with lightning bolts
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  • Rainclouds and local showers at sunset over the vast Makgadikgadi Pans
    VGR_20110501_4015.jpg
  • Dramatic stormy sky over the grass-covered Makgadikgadi plains.
    VGR_20200219_3876.-HDR-Edit.jpg
  • A dramatic local thundershower complete with double partial rainbow comes rolling in over the Nossob River Valley in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
    VGR_20180127_3116c.jpg
  • Close up of falling rain from a local stormcloud over the KAA area of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the rainy season.
    VGR_20180130_3588b.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.
    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.
    VGR_20130207_1612.jpg
  • Herd of zebra in the rain under a colorful rainbow
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  • Rainclouds and local showers at sunset over the vast Makgadikgadi Pans
    VGR_20110501_3992.jpg
  • A dramatic stormy sky avances over a Kalahari plains in the summer rainy season.
    VGR_20180207_8389.jpg
  • A dramatic local thundershower complete with double partial rainbow comes rolling in over the Nossob River Valley in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
    VGR_20180127_3116B&W5-2.jpg
  • Savute cloudscape with refelction in the almost dry savute channel.
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  • Springbok grazing in the Deception Valley under a dark sky
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  • A single acacia tree is silhouetted against an approaching pastel coloured cloud massif
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  • A scene from the Quiver Tree Forest in Namibia with storm clouds in the summer rainy season.
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  • A herd of Gemsbok in Namib desert landscape with dust storm in the background.
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