The Cape Wild Dog, sometimes called Painted Dog, blends into the dry savannah and shrubs of her habitat. This is an alpha female – the leader of the pack and the only one allowed to breed.
(If this is a composite, etc. please be honest with your techniques to help others learn)
An excellent example of camouflage, Pieter. I can see how it would just disappear in the brush. Very good image quality and it sure looks like she has pups to feed.
She does blend in well, Pieter. I like her alert pose. The large version seems just a bit soft, without any shooting parameters, I can only guess as to why.
Shot on Kodak Ektachrome 200 pushed to 400.
Shrug. With wildlife, you just had to make do.
Pushed Ektachrome and then scanned, explains everything. I went through 3 different scanners trying to get “good” scans from my slide files and while with enough work I could get reasonable colors, the resolution from anything less than a drum scan doesn’t hold up to today’s digital files.
