Very nice.

Thanks for posting them.

Thank you for these glimpses. Very enjoyable!
Edit to add: on all photos!

Great pictures, I really liked the shot of the lion.

A few more photos have been added.

Great photos!

Great pics! What kind of camera did you use?

These were taken by several cameras, which include the following:

Nikon D1X
Nikon D70
Nikon 8700
Canon 1s IS
Canon Ixus 500
Sony P100

Really enjoyed the photos. And which of the cameras did you enjoy using the most?

For quality there is nothing to touch the Nikon D1X.

For convenience, the Canon Ixus 500.

Most used was the Canon 1S IS - because it can Hi8 quality videos, and has a 10X optical zoom with an image stabilizer.

I have just ordered the new Nikon D2X, which should be just the ticket for wildlife photos.

This one has a 12 MB sensor, with a 1.5X multiplier. But, it can be downloaded to 6 MB, in which case it has a 2X multiplier. Which means my 80-400mm VR lense is going to effectively become 160-800mm.

How do you effectively carry a camera of that size (D2X) when hunting? I have two main cameras, a canon S410 and a canon digital rebel. When I'm travelling light such as when I'm hunting, I carry the S410 because it is small, lightweight, durable and fits in your pocket. I haven't really figured out how to carry my digital rebel effectively.

Rattlesnaker,

I carry the Canon Ixus 500 in my pockets whwn we are walking. And I keep both the D1X and the 1S IS in the truck.

When the truck is close by, I use one of these two.

Those who stay in the truck use the D1X quite a bit, with a long zoom lense.

Saeed,

Lovely pictures I particularly like the Carmen Bee Eater(sp) and the buff in the river.

Mark

Great photos! Thank you for sharing! I liked the red sunset, it reminds of my safari in RSA!
THANX!

Great pics, would some one name the birds please?

And what is standing in the tall grass, I can't make it out on my puter.

Saeed,

Great photos...It is always good to see more of Africa..Keeps one remembering...

Mike

Thanks Saeed,

I can't wait...just four months and eleven days till I'm back in the Selous. Your photos are wonderful and make me "homesick".

Bull1

Thank you Saeed.....I always like to see the pics.

Great photos, it brought back all my good feelings for the selous experienced on my hunt last year. It seemed like I was taking more photos than necessary at the time, but when you go through them after the hunt even years later, you regret every one not taken. "You can shoot anything you pick up, with practice".

Okay, I'll bite. A lion in the grass?

And a birdwatcher to boot. I am sold on the Nikon 16x50's for very good, but cheap binos. The 15x56 Swarovski's are great but too heavy to lug around, except in the truck!

Have seen more different species of birds migrate through my neighborhood this year than ever. Maybe global warming?

I consider the $60/month on bird seed well spent!

Thanks for the very nice pictures.

Talk about protective coloration! (Lion in the grass?)

It's not satisfying to be on a "saving" year ... all the folks with great pictures and the high excitement of nearing departure dates makes it tough to be staying home ... sigh ...

The animals in the animal in the grass is a liophant.

Saeed, are those photos from the Vincents' new concession?

No, they were taken last year when we hunted with Pierre van Tonder.

I will make sure you get plenty of photos from our next hunt.

Saeed,
Great pictures. I find that the pictures I enjoy the most after returning from Africa are those without anyONE in them. Just the flora and fauna. They always remind me of where I was and what I was doing at the time! Thanks for posting.

The page times out for me ?????

for me too

I'm resetting the server. Give me 30 minutes gents.

Don

Still not working for me.

Neither for me

Gentlemen,

Walter uploaded something onto the server, and just DIED!!??

If it does not get resurrected in teh next hour or two, Walter will follow it!!

thanks
I leave for my first African trip this thursday and need a fix with these pics.

Saeed,

still not working....deep frozen.

quote:

Originally posted by Saeed:
Gentlemen,

Walter uploaded something onto the server, and just DIED!!??

If it does not get resurrected in teh next hour or two, Walter will follow it!!

Please, deport him to France in internment. We have a wannabe goofer waiting for him, J. Chirac by the name.

It appears the data center in Atlanta where we host the Main AR site has a connectivity issue affecting most of Interland's (our ISP) customers.

Until they resolve that, I'm afraid our site is offline.

This is one reason why we decided last year to separate the main AR site from the forum host.

Don

Saeed takes literall thousands of pictures, that year he took 7 full discs as I recall and I spent two weeks many hours a day just looking at all of them, and ditto for the year before last.. some that I relish are:

1. close ups of flys on dead Buffalo, I never realized how much color a fly had, they are absolutly beatiful..

2. the many and varied flowers

3. the beauty of the birds is awesome

4. I am now an expert autopsy-ist, I have photos of all the insides or a dead buffalo and all his parts and bullet wounds through them, all in close up next to expanded bullets..

5. Sunsets and fog preserved forever.

6 Every bug and animal track in the Selous

And that only touches the surface. I could go on forever...

Someday I will donate all these many thousands of photos to some good cause for educational purposes I suspect...

Saeed and Walter let me into a world that I had been standing in for years and never saw what was going on around me...for that I am grateful. sometimes we miss the forrest for the trees...

Our server is back on line.

WE apologize for the inconvenience. It was totallu out of our control. Our ISP lost their main connection.

Saeed, You are to the hunting fraternity what Tiger Woods is to Golf... Simply the best... Many thanks!

Saeed

What block in the Selous did you hunt in?

I think it was LU2 if I remember rightly.

May be Ray can correct me if I am wrong.

Great photos, Saeed! They sure make me want to hop on a plane. I especially like the waterbucks - beautiful light.