Africa 2004

Updated 20-1-2005.
I've put better quality pictures on the site, and made the site more (modem-)user friendly by adding thumbnails.

This site contains a collection of pictures made during a ten day holiday in South Africa.

It was a stunning vacation, which my brother (who has been there quite a few times) rated as one of his best vacations ever. Never had he seen so much in so few days.
This was even more amazing as there had been heavy rains, and the grass was two meters high in places. This is visible in the pictures (as is the rain, for instance with the cheetah pictures).

We saw a pack of 11 wild dogs, leopards mating in Elephant Plains and a leopard making a kill on a nightdrive in Kruger. The latter was probably helped a bit by our lights.

Birds were plentifull although not always in prime position for us. As you can see in the birds section some of the birds were presenting themselves very well, probably to make up for the others.

All pictures were made using a Canon EOS 300 with an EF 100-400 f4.5-5.6L IS USM lens (with a Canon 1.4 TC where needed) for the long shots, and a Canon 28-90 f4.5-5.6 lens for the close shots. Film was Fuji Realla 100 and Fuji NPH 400 for darker situations.

Keep in mind that the pictures you see on this site have been shrunken in size and quality, the actual pictures are of far better quality. The use of these pictures, commercial or non-commercial is forbidden unless you have written permission from me.

For more information, or providing me with the few names that are still missing, you can contact me of course. The mailadres is my firstname (Duco) @ my lastname: Quanjer dot nl.
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