Giraffe – Page 2 – Jennifer Sawicky Photography

I’m focusing on photo art this month, and decided to start things off focusing on giraffes. The easily recognizable shape of a giraffe meant that no matter how far I took the editing, the shape of the animal would still be recognizable as a giraffe.

Since I don’t have any natural talents in drawing and painting, creating these painterly interpretations from the photographs that I take is my opportunity to set aside the need to keep an image looking realistic, and instead focus on what the image is saying to me.

I hope you like my selections for the week; check back next Sunday to see the next instalment.

DSCF0209 copy-Edit — I took this image in a lot of different directions before coming up with this final edit. It is almost starting to resemble a photograph of a giraffe painted on the fabric.

DSCF2515 copy copy-1-Edit — The rosy tint and soft focus effects give this image the feel of a vintage photograph.

DSCF2750 copy-1-Edit — Even though they are enormous animals, giraffes have an amazing ability to blend into their surroundings. I wanted to highlight the camouflage nature of the coat in this edit.

XT3X2698 copy-Edit — This giraffe image reminds me of some of the animal paintings I have seen in old stately homes.

July 17, 2019

2019-07-17: Wordless Wednesday

July 7, 2019

2019-07-07: Babies in the bush

I’m sure most would have expected me to start with elephants for my first post in a series on babies in the bush; and I was tempted to. We spent time with so many large herds, and saw so many young elephants, I am spoiled for choice with images. But, I decided that I would start with something different, and chose to focus on animals with hooves instead. My timing was wrong to see tiny impala, but I did see a fair number of young giraffe, waterbuck and zebra during my travels.

I hope you enjoy my selections, and wishing you an excellent week ahead.

DSCF2418 copy — This giraffe was acting a bit like a crossing guard for several youngsters crossing the road in front of us. Not the best images, but great to show the size difference between the babies and the adults. I only wish there had been an impala in the shot too, to really show how large the young giraffe actually are.

DSCF2423 copy — Fulfilling the cross guard role as another youngster moved from one side to the other. There were about a half dozen giraffe in this group in total.

XT3X2662 — A herd of zebra pause to allow the littlest one a chance to suckle.

XT3X3360 — A young waterbuck blending quite nicely with the autumn tones of the bush. Mom was nearby grazing.

XT3X3617 — A zebra and her foal pause to check out our vehicle, before carry on slowly strolling through the bush.

XT3X4579 copy-Edit — One waterbuck mama acting as babysitter for a group of youngsters. They were all lounging close to the dam at Chitwa Chitwa, while other members of the group were grazing or drinking.

DSCF2270 copy copy-Edit — Little and large.

June 23, 2019

2019-06-23: Mamas and babies in the bush

I was fortunate to see lots of youngsters during my latest travels. While the young elephants are definitely my favourite to watch, especially when they start waving their tiny trunks around trying to act tough, all the young animals in the bush are a delight to see.

Here are just a few of the sightings that I had.

DSCF2273 copy — A giraffe calf having a late afternoon milk break.

DSCF3002 — We spent some time with this pair of rhinos while they grazed away the early morning. Here the young one had just turned to look as another vehicle was heading in to take over our viewing position. Moments later, the head was back down and he was happily munching on the grass again.

XT3X2902 — A pair of lion cubs suckling.

XT3X3869 copy-Edit — A young leopard doing a very accurate impression of a sulky teenager.

May 8, 2019

2019-05-08: Wordless Wednesday

July 23, 2018July 22, 2018

2018-07-23: Monochrome Monday

A giraffe reaching for a choice morsel, high up in an acacia tree.

Because of an abundant wet season, there was a lot of food (and relatively speaking) a lot of water on offer in the desert while I was there last April.