Reserved Lands
by ellamay

Comment by Nyck:
nice cloud,reflections in the water are great as well

Reserved Lands
by ellamay

Comment by sfalice:
good leading line of the water to the background with the clouds as a stopper to bring the viewer back into the picture. Maaaaby just a bit too tight a crop at the bottom edge...

Still, nice one.

Reserved Lands
by ellamay

Comment by TrollMan:
I particularly like the soft tones

Rain Forest
by ellamay

Comment by audinut:
I love this

Migration Interupted
by ellamay

Comment by Bryuer:
Everyone has congratulated your fine piece, appropriately. It is fabulous and belongs on a wildlife cover. But I would have loved to see the shot of the wildebeasts waiting for the hippo to cross. That might have been amusing. Like traffic in LA.

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by ellamay

Comment by lwkimages:
I haven't taken the time to read through all the comments here (...I can't take my eyes off your photo long enough to do so). If it hasn't already been said (and I can't imagine it hasn't), this image belongs on the cover of National Geographic. Absolutely awe-inspiring!!! Congratulations, Lynn.

-len

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by ellamay

Comment by mesmeraj:
just as a side note on the hippos (i LOVE hippos), they are mostly herboviores, but occassionally, often when herb-beasts migrate, they will pick off a week beast and consume it. They have also been known to take food from a croc, and occassionally the males adults will maul and consume baby males that are not of thier own seed, or eat the flesh of a dying hippo.
It wasn't until just recently that film crews were able to capture hippos in any of the above behaviours. Understandly, since hippos are the deadliest beast to man in africa.

That said, What an image! Do you have any more of the hippos??

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by ellamay

Comment by sigrun_th:
great colors and composition - magical photo

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by ellamay

Comment by thatcloudthere:
I don't think I've said 10 words on this website this year. But it's time.

I would imagine that if I ever saw this in real life I would look back at it for years as the most amazing scene I've ever ingested. I'm glad that you wrote the same thing in your comments. Congratulations on a few things. First, that you were there. To me, that is the most exciting thing about this photo...imagining somebody (you) standing there with camera in hand, jaw dropped, eyes wide open and heart racing. Secondly, of course, I'd like to congratulate you on capturing the moment so that we could all experience it with you. Very nicely framed and toned, especially. I'm ultra-jealouse in a good sort of way. I hope to see something similar one day! Well done!

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by ellamay

Comment by blindjustice:
spectacular/ reminds me of an Imax movie I saw once, narrated by James Earl Jones. Congrats.