Since I have to travel in East Africa on business from time to time, I get stuck in Nairobi over the weekend fairly frequently. Nairobi National Park gets old pretty fast, so yesterday and today I followed a friend's suggestion and went to Lake Nakuru National Park which is a two to three hour drive from Nairobi. It is mostly known for its flamingos but the place is full of white rhino (and one or two black rhino), waterbuck, buffalo and your usual assortment of plains game. A very nice alternative to downtown Nairobi.

















All photos with a Nikon D90 with 18-200mm lens.

Great pictures and beautiful country. Would have been very neat to have hunted there forty years ago.

YEEP now ya'll know why I love it there so much. thanks for the pics. makes me home sick to be back in africa. The real wild life is in city center at night hahahahahaha.

SUBERB PICS


Seloushunter

WOW, those are some great photos. The colors are fantastic.

Those are great! Thank you for sharing!

Definitely a viable alternative to Mama Ngina Avenue...

Spent an overnight there in the original Russian built hotel back in 1995. Worst bed I've ever paid for, but the view from the window was absolutely incredible!

Lovely photos, mate.

Your pics look very clear and sharp.Do you use photobucket pro,or is it a regular account?

quote:

Originally posted by jb:
Your pics look very clear and sharp.Do you use photobucket pro,or is it a regular account?

It's a regular photobucket account. Would they look better with a pro account?

The zebra have an almost brownish or reddish tinge to the stripes. Is that a true rendition of the color, and if so, are they a different sub species?
Peter.

I would assume just red dirt. Mine from Masailand looked the same way util the trackers washed it.....

quote:

Originally posted by Peter:
The zebra have an almost brownish or reddish tinge to the stripes. Is that a true rendition of the color, and if so, are they a different sub species?
Peter.

I don't think the almost reddish tinge on the back of the zebra is due to any color shift in the photograph, and I didn't do any color enhancing before posting the picture on photobucket. What I have noticed however, after taking a look at a bunch of other zebra pictures I have taken over the years, is that zebra like to take a dust bath from time to time in which they roll onto their back and twist and turn, much a like a dog does to scratch its back. This leaves them with a dirty, dusty back which can often show up as a brownish or reddish tinge depending on the dirt.

quote:

Originally posted by Wink:

quote:

Originally posted by jb:
Your pics look very clear and sharp.Do you use photobucket pro,or is it a regular account?

It's a regular photobucket account. Would they look better with a pro account?

They mention a higher resolution if you go pro.I have been considering it,for $20 a year for 2 years.I have noticed that pics I put there,and display here,are not as sharp as when viewed from my hard drive.here are the listed differences

Features Free Pro
Storage space 500MB 25GB
Image size 1MB High res images
Traffic bandwidth 10GB/month Unlimited*
Image dimensions 1024x768 4000x3000
Custom URLs for albums Root album only All sub-albums
Ads in your album Yes No
More stats Basic stats Full stats
Keep links active No Yes
SWF/Flash file support No Yes
FTP access to your account No Yes
Premium tech support No Yes

jb, I think the compression software on photobucket is part of the problem. So I circumvent that by compressing the photos first before doing the photobucket upload. In other words, if I have a good RAW file I save a copy with an image size of 1024 pixels on the longest dimension (using Nikon Capture NX2 or Gimp or similar). Then I select the upload option of 1024 pixels on photobucket which means that in fact photobucket does not need to do any compressing. This seems to give better results and probably means I don't need the photobucket pro option to get good resolution.

you definitly have some nice pictures, there.

Outstanding Bill! They almost look 3D.

Now I know what to do when in Paris and Nairobi!

Please a big Hi to Laurence, I hope and trust the family is well. All good on this side, although a bit too quiet around the house w/the boys off at college. Bill

Bill you will have to give camera lessons while in Dallas this year. Outstanding photos, the colors are very vivid.

Mike