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2010 Botswana Blog
Day 1: Meet and Greet
Day 2: Around Tree Lodge
Day 3: Wild!
Day 4: First Full Safari Day
Day 5: Mufasa
Day 6: At the Speed of Africa
Day 7: Ele in the Channel
Day 8: All Quiet on All Fronts
Day 9: Big Cats
Day 10: Kill, kill, kill
Day 11: The Ele That Walked to the Leopard
Day 12: Cats All Day
Day 13: The Long Haul
Day 14: Herd Behavior
Day 15: Human Herd Behavior
Some of the Rest
2010 South Africa Blog
Day 0: Lecture and Shoot
Day 1: Wet and Dry
Day 2: South Africa History Day
Day 3: Out of the Cape
Day 4: The Long Drive
Day 5: The Tsitsikamma
Day 6: The Tsitsikamma
Day 7: Goodbye Landscapes, Hello Animals
Day 8: To the Preserves
Timeout: Some Useful Information
Day 9: Rhinos? What Rhinos?
Day 10: The Kill
Bonus Day: All Safari, All the Time
Final Full Day: Cubs
Wrap-up 1: The Soap Opera Continues
Wrap-up 2: Equipment
2013 Botswana Blog
Workshop Prep Time
Pre Workshop Scout
Royal Tree Lodge
Into Moremi: Lost Elephant
First Lion
Baby Ele, 2-min Leopard
Ten Spots in a Tree; Boats
Warthogs and Rest
Antelope & Birds on Sticks
To Savute
Wild Dogs at Sundown
Lion Buffalo Standoff
The Night
Savute to Chobe
Day 13 Livingston Falls
Bonus Photos
Some Tony Shots
Safari Wrapup
2016 Botswana Blog
1. We Start Again
2. In Transit
3. Still in Transit
4. First Day, First Night
5. First Full Drive
6. Happy Hippos
7. More Travel, Plus Meet and Greet
8. First Impressions of Moremi
9. Just Another Day in Moremi
10. Moremi Too
11. Boat to Camp O
12. Walking in the Delta
13. Goodbye Camp O, Hello Savute
14. Waiting for the Leopard
15. Hyena Only
16. Moving to Khwai
17. Khwai Provides
18. Khwai Goodbye
19. Back to Maun
20. Meno a Kwena
21. Bushmen
2016 Botswana Wrap
And a Short Followup on Lists
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Lost in Translation
Up Into the Cordillera Blanca
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On the Digital Trail to Nowhere
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1— Composing Reflections
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3— Moving Focus Points
4— Learn from Failure
5— Impact versus Technique
6— What are you Saying?
7— Take the Shot
8— Plan your Shooting
9— Immediacy
10— Exaggerate Human Form
11— Birds in Flight
12— Look the Other Way
13— Stitching Tip
14— Go Back and Repeat
15— Landscape Two-fer
16— What Photogs Do
17— Moments
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19— Seeing O'Hare Again
20— Fireworks
21— Selecting Sky
22 — Momentary Rays
23— Improving Wildlife Photos
24— Dealing w/ Color Temp
25—How Cold Can You Go?
26 — More on Cropping
27 — Find the Rest of the Story
28 — Things You "Can't" Shoot From Behind
29 — Photograph Out of Season
30 — Being Ready to Be Ready
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Chasing Galen
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That Was Bad Advice...
Color Me Confused
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Pano-stiching a PC-E
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Really, JPEG or RAW?
Raw or JPEG Redux
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A Snappier Bridge
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Blame the Equipment
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What’s Your Biggest Problem?
Learning from Sports Photogs
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Things You Should Do But Don't
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Feline Flip-Flop
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Post Processing 2022
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