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Springboks in the Kalahari

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:55:45 -0700

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Black Rhinoceros

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:06:02 -0700

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Giraffes drinking, setting new moon

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:06:02 -0700

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Lions killing a zebra

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:06:01 -0700

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Sitting all alone in the car watching this unfold in front of the car, the sounds of a dying zebra still haunt me.

The storm

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 02:59:43 -0700

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Distant thunder spoke of a storm in the south. And then there was darkness. The power lines had been broken. In the north, a near full moon shone brightly in the sky as fluffy clouds from the south started to engulf it. It was almost 9pm and it had already been another long and hot day. As workers tried to desperately to bring up the generator and restore power to the camp, I knew I had just a small window to go see the beauty of a naturally lit waterhole. I picked up my cameras and rushed to the Okaukuejo waterhole. There was a small pride of lions drinking at the waterhole and four black rhinoceros kept their distance. The moonlight was brilliant and the scene was perfect until someone else also saw the lions. The serenity was soon disturbed by the powerful flashlights of excited tourists wanting to see the lions. There was a massive lightning strike not too far from the waterhole and it was soon followed by the deafening roar of an African thunder. The lions quietly slipped away into the darkness of the trees in the background and the tourists took a break from their flashlights and camera flashes. The blue-black starry sky was being engulfed by the storm clouds as I set up my camera on a tripod. There were two lightning strikes in the same area and I was hoping a third would be in the same place and composed the image with that expectation. Fingers were crossed and the camera was sent on a manual (bulb) exposure setting. Seconds were like minutes and minutes were like hours as I waited. After four minutes there was nothing and I knew I had to stop soon or risk the photo being over-exposed. As I looked down to fetch the trigger remote, I missed the lighting strike. Was it in the photograph? I had to wait. After two hundred and seventy seconds of exposure I stopped the camera and waited eagerly to see what it had captured. YES! There were star trails, moving clouds, the last bit of a blue-black sky and a big lighting strike at the same spot as the previous two times!

Gateway to the heavens? Etosha!

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:17:06 -0700

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Crows harassing a vulture

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:17:06 -0700

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Lioness 'screaming' at a lion

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:17:05 -0700

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Elephants at dusk

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:07:48 -0700

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Elephants pick up pace, kicking up dust when they are heading towards water.

Abdim Storks

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:07:48 -0700

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Being sucked into a storm by the strong winds

Black Rhinoceros mother and calf

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:07:47 -0700

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Angola monitor lizard

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:07:46 -0700

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Charging rhino calf

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:07:46 -0700

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Rhino calf trying to chase away a jackal

Dust Cloud

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:27:05 -0800

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Nebrownii waterhole

Giant Eagle-Owl

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:27:04 -0800

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Okaukuejo waterhole

Black Rhinoceros

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:27:04 -0800

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Okaukuejo waterhole

Lioness and cub

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:27:03 -0800

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Stretching Lion

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:27:02 -0800

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Black rhinoceroses and lions

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 02:53:47 -0700

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Okaukuejo waterhole, Etosha. Two rhinos coming to the waterhole run into a pride of lions (2 in the picture). The rhinos sense the presence of lions, but they cannot see. The lions are completely at ease in the dark and can see the rhinos very well.

Lion and rhino in the dark

nobody@flickr.com (yathin) — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 02:53:46 -0700

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Okaukuejo waterhole, Etosha