Last Light in a Worn Root on the Zambezi River

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Image Description

At the start of an evening safari along the Zambezi River, I captured this crocodile nestled among the exposed roots of a large tree at the water’s edge. Perfectly camouflaged, it went unnoticed until our guide pointed it out, giving me just enough time to raise my camera and make the photograph before it slipped back into the river.

Feedback Requests

It’s not my sharpest photograph but a capture a memory of the river. Just did not have my camera setup with the proper shutter speed and shooting mode. I wanted to capture the environment so the crop is wide - but maybe can use some tweaks. The sun was low - interested in any post processing feedback. Thank you.

Pertinent Technical Details

1/25 @ f/45
222 mm
-0.3 EV
Lens: FE 70-200mm 2.8 GM II

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Stephen – In my own posting of a Zebra Tailed Lizard, I noted that the shot probably lacked context. My subject may have been too small and elusive for me to frame it better. You hit the sweet spot here in my view, featuring the reptile in a great setting, like a landscape shooter featuring a small, intense subject in a large space.

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Thank you James for the kind words. I’m going to play with some cropping because I feel the root system takes up a lot of the photography but yet, do like that it provides some unique context into the environment in which the reptile was found. Too often these creatures are on the ground and it was an opportunity to see this one resting on the roots.