The Kanzama’s Sunset

I’ve just got back to Lusaka after 5 days out in the field. That doesn’t mean I was there on a photo expedition—I work for an NGO so we were doing some groundwork for an upcoming project. But I did take my camera and in my spare time managed to get a few good shots.

This photo is of Saturday night’s sunset. I was out for a drive and we stopped here to ask if I could take pictures in their small ‘village’. I guess it was kind of like a compound. I learnt that this small collection of huts belongs to one family, the Kanzama family (some of them are pictured at the bottom of this post).

I’m posting this photo here first for some feedback before I share on Facebook and my website because I’m not 100% sure which crop I like better (see 2nd option below). I felt rushed in the moment because it had started raining and my 24mm does not have a lens hood. And I knew the colour wasn’t going to stick around for long so in my haste I neglected to pay careful attention to the composition. I would have preferred the far left hut to be fully in the frame…

So I’ve cropped it nearly all out, losing some sky in the process and increasing the relative size of the foreground hut. Which one works for you? I’d love to have your input before I share it further… Thanks.

Nikon D600
1/25 sec @ f/8 and ISO 100
24mm (Nikkor 24mm f/2.8)

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After The Harvest

This is my first photo on here from Zambia. I’ve recently moved back to Africa for the remainder of this year and I’m now living in Lusaka. I hope to be able to get out and about at least once a month. I drove around yesterday with a friend exploring some of the area outside the city and ended up in this farm land at sunset.

Now that I have a full frame camera in my Nikon D600, I’m hoping to enhance my collection of wildlife, landscape and night photography over the next 8 months. I hope you will join me on this journey — find me on Facebook or visit my website at karllindsayphotography.com.

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Colours in the Sky — Tips for Stunning Night Photos! [Part 2]

To take this photo, I had my camera on my tripod, fairly close to the sand pointing up towards the sky. I composed the shot so the Milky Way and the hillside would be almost parallel. This is from two exposures for noise reduction purposes and the green sky towards the horizon is called airglow. Click here to buy this image

Check out my next instalment of my series on my blog…

In Part 2 of How To Take Stunning Night Photos I continue to share how I go about capturing the night sky. This post reveals my favourite photography related iPhone Apps and 7 steps on how I plan a shoot. Don’t miss the bonus tip at the bottom of the post! Read more here!

Falling Stars – Tips for Stunning Night Photos!

This is one of the last photos I took in Australia before I flew back to Africa 11 days ago. I hope you like it. I’ve just published the first part of a new series on my blog where I will be sharing some tips for night photography. If you’re interested, check it out here!

I’m Back. But I’ve Moved.

I’ve finally gotten around to posting here again. After a six month hiatus from my daily posts that ended last June, I came back to Australia and went back to my study. I also took a little while to redesign my main online portfolio. Both of those are done now and I’ve had time to get back in to posting about my photography.

I’d love you to visit my new site and my latest blog post looking back at my favourite memories of 2012. In this post I’ve given you a sneak peak — There is another seven stories on the jump.

Visit my new site at karllindsayphotography.com and make sure you subscribe to new posts here. You can now order high quality canvases and prints from my site and for today only (Sunday Jan 6), I will give you reduced rates on any canvas. Just contact me!

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We are now in the new year so I thought I’d take a look back at 2012 and share some of my favourite memories from the part of it I spent in Africa, and then some from trips when back home. These photos aren’t necessarily my best photos from the year, but represent my top experiences over the last twelve months.

#1. Kenyan New Year

  

I brought in 2012 on the beaches north of Mombasa, Kenya’s coastal tourist town. I am used to having the beach a short twenty minute drive away at home, but hadn’t had that option for five months since arriving in Nairobi the previous August. It was nice to be near the beach again and these two shots above are from New Years Day. It was cool to see these African kids enjoying the water like any kid would around the world. While there were smiles on the kids all over Kenya, I feel like these kids didn’t have it as tough as some of the others. The first photo above is sunrise from the south end of the beach, and the second is the sunset from the northern end of the bay.

#2. Maasai Mara Safari

  

Get this one printed!

Later in January, I headed back to the Mara for my third safari on the savannah in as many months. To be on safari on the plains of the Mara and get up close to the animals is something really special. These two shots are probably my best from that trip. This lion was sitting under a tree when we first saw him, and he was still there when we were on our way out of the park a few hours later. The late evening light made for a beautiful portrait of this majestic beast, who was seemingly undisturbed by all the vehicles around him. This elephant was part of a small herd who had just crossed the road in front of us. I have a colour version of this photo but for some reason I am partial to monochrome images of elephants. I think it is the texture of their skin that makes it work so well.

See the rest here: http://karllindsayphotography.com/blog/2013/01/favourite-memories-from-2012

Most Liked Images

Below are the 10 images that have been liked the most on my blog. I will attempt keep this up to date as the numbers change over time. The photos are linked to the original posts for any new visitors who may want to see my most popular photos previously posted.

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Day 366: Finished

If you’re reading this post in the WP reader, come see the photo larger on my blog. You can see this post for an update on what happens now that Day 366 has arrived.

For my last photo in this year-long project I’m posting a photo of the Dubai Mall fountain show. This happens every evening on the half hour. I forget when it starts (just look for all the people gathered outside). Each show is about 2-3 minutes long and put together to music so the fountains go up and down in time and rhythm. It really is done very well. But you can say that about most things in Dubai.

I thought I’d throw in a photo of me. This was taken as my friend and I wandered through the souks (markets) of old Dubai. You can’t really get through there without them throwing something over your head or around your neck, enticing you to come into their shop. We didn’t mind too much as all the shops were airconditioned!

I hope you’ve enjoyed my photography as I’ve taken you on many journeys across North America and Africa. I haven’t posted too many from Australia, but hopefully that will change soon. See you again in a few weeks

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Day 365: Dust & the International Finance Centre

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Today’s photo is of the Dubai International Finance Centre. This building is built in a cube shape but with the middle section hollow. You can also see the Burj Khalifa standing in the background.

Unfortunately a lot of my photos from Dubai have been destroyed by thousands of dust spots. I was going to post a photo of the emirates towers today but when I pulled it into Photoshop this is what I found. This is a screenshot of the top of the image at 50% – quite unusable

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Day 364: Project Reflections & Red Lights on the Beach

If you’re reading this post in the reader, come see the photo larger on my blog and read about my plans for after my 366 Day Ambition.

Wow. Day 364. 2 more days. This project started out last July with a goal to reduce the number of unedited and unpublished photos in my library. It has certainly done that, especially with my chronological tour of the United States and Canada, showing photos from my family’s road trip in 2010. I know I wasn’t quite able to publish every single day. I think I missed 3 or 4 days as well as the 2 week period when my laptop crashed at the end of November last year.

So where from now? As this post get’s published, I’ll actually be on my way to Fraser Island (Google it) for a few days. I should come home with a full memory card or two so the photos will keep coming. Come Sunday, I won’t be publishing every day any more, but when I do get back home, I am hoping to finally get into a routine and dedicate more time to my photography and social media. I am also working on a facelift for my website so when that happens, I’ll become more active there and gradually decrease the posts here. I hope you’ll all join me on my self-hosted site when it goes live

Thanks so much for your visits, likes and comments – they’ve been appreciated greatly. I hope I can continue to post on a semi-regular basis! Read on for today’s photo and description…

For the last few days of this project, I’ll take you to some more of the sights in Dubai. Today’s shot is of the Jumeirah Beach Hotel. It is one of the fancier hotels in Dubai and looks out at the Burj Al Arab. At night, the exterior lights change colour every few minutes so I took a photo on 5 different rotations from the same place. I’m working on a composite which will show all 5, but this is just the red lights. Unfortunately I didn’t have a wide enough lens to get in the whole building, but I think it looks pretty cool, regardless.

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Day 363: Dead & Dying

I feel like I’ve posted this before, but it may only be because I’ve thought about how I’d write the description a few times. These stalks of flowers are all over the vertical bog area on the hike up to Pt Lenana. In this photo I sought to juxtapose the dead one to the one in the foreground which appears to be on its last days of colour.

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Day 362: All Burnt Out

I missed another day yesterday. Ah well… As we hiked from MET Station to Teleki Lodge / Mackinders, we hiked through an area where everything was burnt out. It must have been recent, as some logs were still smouldering. In the background, you can see Mt Kenya standing tall.

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Day 360: Nakuru Pelicans

Unfortunately when we were at Nakuru National Park, there weren’t any flamingos around as the water level was too high for them. There were, however, a decent number of pelicans around the shoreline. They may not be as beautiful, but they aren’t too bad really.

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Day 359: Glacial Stream

Today’s photo is from Mt Kenya in the Teleki Valley. This stream flows from some of the glaciers further up the mountain. It was a beautiful spot, but rather cold!

On another note… only 1 more week to go. For some reason though, my stats have fallen away over the last two weeks. Even though yesterdays image was my 4th most liked image, I only received 8 visits. Odd. Anyway.. I’m glad you all liked the image!

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Day 358: Gathered in the Shade

Here is another image from Crescent Island (Lake Naivasha) where we walked around with the animals. It was a rather hot day so all the animals like these wildebeest were trying to find as much shade as they could.

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Day 357: Tearing it Up

This young lion is the same one I posted on Day 292 and 323. He is tearing into an eland that had been dead for at least a day or two. This was in Nairobi National Park and we saw it just before the end of the day. We were all quite excited to see something so epic on one of our last safaris!

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