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Gaduf said:
Great capture of the Hippo, Marcelo.
And for your background information on your trip to Chobe.
Chobe is always special and has great photographic opportunities.
My wife and I have visited the area on a number of occasions - living in South Africa makes this lot easier for us.
Gavin
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Thank you Gavin! Indeed the Chobe is special, more so when enjoying the luxury of all the gear on the Pangolin boats. Individual 360º rotating chairs each having a set of arms that adjusts to height (and bellies! :LOL: ) crowned by a nice gimbal head. Such an easy way to make the gear fully transparent and focus only on the subjects!

So envy of you living so close to most everything out there... I met a couple that drove from Cape Town all the way to the Chobe (xing Botswana) and were returning thru the Caprivi going south thru Namibia... 3 weeks on the road! How nice!!

I'll be returning to the Chobe again, but will take a break or I'll start calling the birds by name... We had a young Malachite jumping on the boat, fishing from the rails, and even standing atop the gear! :love:

This is a capture from one of the vids I took with the cell phone while he was on the boat!
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Krgds, Marcelo
 
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While I'm on it, instead of opening yet another thread and clogging/boring the Forum, I'll post a few more pics here.

(Mods please remove if not convenient/proper to do so, thanks!)

This Fish Eagle taking off with the remainings of what it seems to be a Tigerfish made my day (actually, it was on my first outing on the boat on Sunday 12/29). What a way to start the week! :love:

Light wasn't the greatest but with a bit of denoise I could save the shot:

Z92_3751©MC by Marcelo Cinicola, on Flickr

Nikon Z 9
NIKKOR Z 600mm f/4 TC VR S
ƒ/5.6
840.0 mm
1/1600s
ISO 2800

Krgds, Marcelo
 
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Marcelo_R said:
Thank you Gavin! Indeed the Chobe is special, more so when enjoying the luxury of all the gear on the Pangolin boats. Individual 360º rotating chairs each having a set of arms that adjusts to height (and bellies! :LOL: ) crowned by a nice gimbal head. Such an easy way to make the gear fully transparent and focus only on the subjects!

So envy of you living so close to most everything out there... I met a couple that drove from Cape Town all the way to the Chobe (xing Botswana) and were returning thru the Caprivi going south thru Namibia... 3 weeks on the road! How nice!!

I'll be returning to the Chobe again, but will take a break or I'll start calling the birds by name... We had a young Malachite jumping on the boat, fishing from the rails, and even standing atop the gear! :love:

This is a capture from one of the vids I took with the cell phone while he was on the boat!
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Krgds, Marcelo
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On our trip the Malachites were not as confiding and your post reminded me of this



Posted by the same photo host (William) we had on our trip in September 2024
 
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