Lake Natron and flamingoes. I have been surprised to see the flamingoes nesting again. The young grey flamingoes were still there a few months ago...
here is a broad view...drier surface, dull colors as I said. The flamingoes are there but they blend quite well until you come close....
and see their footprints...
and here we go, the pink spots on this funny surface that looks like a piece of wrinkly silk.
this shot is just a similar picture of the previous one, just seriously enlarged and cropped. Imagine I took a one by one cm square from the original shot , had to play a bit on Photoshop for contrast and sharpening. So this twisted picture shows a superb flock of flamingoes taking off all together without crashing into each other. I never fail to be impressed by this skill....
enlarged as well but not as much. To get a sharp shot of flamingoes it is very difficult to come very close to them and fly slow and low with a Caravan and its shitty window, its lack of slow speed....if at least I had another plot with me, I could focus and frame.
huge blow up again, not so sharp, but this is only for blog purpose, right? I'll have to be very nice and sweet with Karine and borrow her Nikon D300 and try it at higher sensibility and shutter speeds, at 1600 iso for instance. That's the big improvement over the D200.
Look inside the grey nest! White eggs. Nests looking like egg holder, made of mud and whatever the birds find on the lake crust.
another location, more nests.
maxi enlargement, not the best quality as a result, pixels are visible... cool sighting though, I just love that.
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