Balule Nature Reserve Day Three

The day started out sort of slow. There was game to see, but it was mostly in brushy places difficult to shoot. I did get a distant Black Rhino and sone nice Giraffe, however. The afternoon game drive made up for it. About a half hour before Sunset, we came across a fairly large herd of Elephants. I filmed them for a few minutes, some of them made a really close pass by the 4x4, then we got a radio call about Lions 20 minutes away from our location. It seems that the mamas of the cubs I shot yesterday and the day before had collected them and were on the move. We got to them just as the sun was setting, so I only had a few minutes of useable light, then I switched to the DSLR like I did last night. There were 7 cubs and 6 adult females. There happened to also be a herd of Elephants very close to them, and one of the females was stalking a small Elephant. An adult caught wind of it, trumpeted loudly, and just about stomped the female in chasing it away. We stayed with one female (the babysitter) and the cubs until long after dark.

Easy to get just the right moment in time when you're shooting 30 fps


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