Yes, this is yesterday’s POTD, but in B&W. I hope you like the conversion. I also hope this gets you to thinking that you probably have 2 shots with every click of the camera – the color AND the black…
Month: September 2009
Photo of the Day & Photo Tip: Shooting into the Sun – September 29, 2007
Sunsets so beautiful, even the animals watch! This is an HDR image of a shot at ISO 800. Photo tips: When shooting sunsets, lower exposure compensation 2 to 3 stops
Buffalo herd defend their own
Excellent footage by a herd of buffalo protecting a bull taken down by lions. The footage was provided by an excellent organization, Earth-Tough. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqhuA8cscKA[/youtube] Another video by Earth-Touch. This one has even more powerful footage and shows cape buffalo behavior…
Cooling Off
The following was Posted by web keepers of Chobe Under Canvas on 15 September 2009. I can only assume this was written by one of their guests. Events like this make you want to be there! Taking a boat cruise…
2010 Botswana Birdlife Calendar
This sounds like a great business gift idea. For 2010 BirdLife has created three styles of calendar to help keep track of the year and its activities. This year our theme is on the twelve designated ‘Important Bird Areas’ of…
BIRDING WITH A PURPOSE
… Collecting data for the conservation of birds in Botswana If you are going to Botswana and you like birds, you can do so while helping a cause. In this article compiled by Pete Hancock from the Birdlife Botswana society…
Photo Tip: Saving and Sharing Your Trip Photos
For this article, I believe “a picture is worth a 1000 words” so my discussion will be brief. After my first trip to Chobe National Park, I chose to print a book of the journey as a gift to my…
Novel to read while on Safari: Cry the Beloved Country
“Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent…
African History – LIVINGSTONE’S LETTER
In 1859 David Livingstone dropped a message in a bottle into the Zambezi River. Some 150 years later the same letter had travelled around the world, linking together generations, continents and shrinking the passage of time. Here is its story…
Book for the Safari: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Book for the Safari: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Sierra Leone is not Botswana. Both have diamonds, so I guess their fates could have been similar, but, different fates emerged. Regardless, this is…