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Caption: Analog Africa A Wildlife Adventure Episode 1
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Caption: Common belief is that you need an expensive DSLR to make professional imagery of the African Big Five and other wildlife. All of the photographs in my Analog Africa Series Episodes 1 and 2 were captured on Nikon film cameras and Kodak/Fuji transparency film.
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Caption: The tools utilized were Nikon FM3a and F100. cameras, 24-50mm, 80-200mm f2.8 and 300mm f2.8 lenses with 1.4 and 2x telex tenders.
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Caption: Film stocks included Fuji Velvia 50 and Provia 100. Kodak film used was the outstanding but discontinued E100VS.
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Caption: The Rhino is being hunted to extinction for it's beautiful but medically worthless horn.
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Caption: Sadly this beautiful creature was killed by poachers soon after this photograph was taken.
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Caption: The Giraffe is the tallest land mammal, an adult male can reach 17' tall.
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Caption: The Zebra's distinctive cost pattern is unique to each individual.
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Caption: A Waterbok displays a handsome. profile in the Okavango Delta.
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Caption: Hyenas kill as much as 95% of the animals they eat although they have long been regarded as being cowardly scavengers.
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Caption: My main goal is in representing the animals simply in their home environment of the Okavango Delta of Botswana. Their home and health is under tremendous stress, virtually all of it rooted in human activity. To me, every creature, human or nonhuman, is in possession of a living spirit and this feeling, this belief,, affects me every time I take out my camera.
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Caption: A leopard rests at sunset
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Caption: The Big Cats are awe inspiring in the wild.
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Caption: A lioness devours a Zebra leg after a nightime hunt.
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Caption: We were so fortunate to witness the lion mating rituals,
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Caption: A nap after all that hunting, eating and sex!
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Caption: The King yawns to show his set of fierce fangs!
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Caption: A 17 foot long African freshwater crocodile basks in the late afternoon sun along the Chobe River, Botswana-Namibia border.
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Caption: A young warthog stays close to it's mother.
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Caption: The large mammals of Africa are a priceless treasure to humankind.
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Caption: Sun setting over a herd of Cape Buffalo.
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Caption: The photos are my attempt to channel into the spirit of these beautiful creatures, and to witness this heart-wrenchingly beautiful world that is vanishing before our very eyes. Since 2009 there has been a tragic increase in the destruction of African wildlife to meet the demand from a wealthier China and the Far East.
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