I've just finished reading the 'New Big 5 Project' article in the latest issue of EOS Magazine, which I found very interesting being an amateur wildlife photographer. It got me thinking about my most memorable experience and then thought it may make a good thread on this forum for members to recount their most memorable experiences from any genre of photography.
To get things started mine involves an elephant in South Africa. My partner, Christine and I were sitting in a safari vehicle in a dry river bed beside one of the few remaining pools of water surrounded by a herd of elephants in the Sabi Sand. An elephant on the other side of the pool decided to cross and approached our vehicle. It was only when we could no longer focus that we took our cameras away from our eyes to discover that he had stopped just a couple of metres from our vehicle and proceeded to feed on some vegetation. He was so close we could have reached out and touched him, though that would have been the worst thing we could do. Instead we just sat there and enjoyed the experience of being in the company of a completely wild animal, who was relaxed enough to permit us to share a few moments of his life with him.
EOS 5D III with 70-200mm f/4L IS lens.
To get things started mine involves an elephant in South Africa. My partner, Christine and I were sitting in a safari vehicle in a dry river bed beside one of the few remaining pools of water surrounded by a herd of elephants in the Sabi Sand. An elephant on the other side of the pool decided to cross and approached our vehicle. It was only when we could no longer focus that we took our cameras away from our eyes to discover that he had stopped just a couple of metres from our vehicle and proceeded to feed on some vegetation. He was so close we could have reached out and touched him, though that would have been the worst thing we could do. Instead we just sat there and enjoyed the experience of being in the company of a completely wild animal, who was relaxed enough to permit us to share a few moments of his life with him.
EOS 5D III with 70-200mm f/4L IS lens.
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