Thanks to all who submitted their photographs for our “On or Around The Water” contest. I haven’t counted how many yet but I feel like this contest will have the most entries ever! Results as soon as we can get through them all.
I took the shots below at sunrise on one of our last days in Kruger National Park in South Africa and at first glance you may think the pictures of the White-backed Vulture below are identical. On closer examination you’ll see that the beak in the second image is open. This small detail makes the image more interesting – the better picture.
Looking at the timestamps of the two pictures they were taken 1/4th of a second apart – part of a small burst of shots. Even though the subject was “stationary” there was still movement – a single shot would have probably missed the better moment when the bill was open. Moral of the story – take a couple of shots (or burst) of a bird even when it does not appear to be moving and you might capture a slight change that improves the quality of your shot.
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