Photo of the Day

On a recent photographic safari to Pilanesberg National Park, we spent most of the morning at the hide situated on Mankwe Dam. We spent a good 3 hours at the hide taking photos of both Giant & Pied Kingfishers, Yellow-billed Storks, Giraffe, Wildebeest, Rock Monitors and a number of other interesting critters.

The highlights though, were the dragonflies which were constantly flying around and landing on a couple of dead stumps right in front of our lenses. After a number of attempts, playing with aperture values and exposure settings, I captured the image below.

(Canon 40D , Canon 100-400mm @ 400mm, 1/125, F/10, ISO 100 )

I absolutely love the colours on this dragonfly and would be very keen to hear from anyone who could possibly give me an ID. I will be posting some of the images taken by the rest of the group when I review the first “Introduction to Digital Photography” workshop next week.