landscape photography – Page 8 – Jennifer Sawicky Photography

May 2, 2018May 1, 2018

2018-05-02: Wordless Wednesday

April 30, 2018April 29, 2018

2018-04-30: Monochrome Monday

The sun over the Boteti River. Each time I have been to Botswana, I have found the sky there completely mesmerizing. This past trip was no exception.

Wishing everyone a great week ahead – happy Monday 🙂

20180430_MM — Leroo La Tau Camp, May 2017.

April 28, 2018

2018-04-28: WPC Lines

The photo challenge topic for the week is lines (not the kind you were stuck writing in school if you were misbehaving in class…) 🙂

Here are a few images that I found that I feel have a strong linear element to them. I hope you enjoy.

20170425-DSC_0592 — A game trail through the desert leads up a hill and around a bend. Don’t you find yourself wondering what might be just beyond the line of sight? Namibia, April 2017.

20170425-1020349 — Jagged hills zigzagging into the distance in this aerial shot above the Damaraland region of Namibia. April, 2017.

20170427-P1020841 — Game trails through the desert again, but this time leading us to a lioness heading towards the river for a drink. Hoanib Skeleton Coast Camp, April 2017.

20170503-P1030063 — A road through the Nxai Pan leading to the Baines Baobabs. The image is deceiving, as the tree trunks are as wide as a vehicle. Botswana, May 2017.

20170511-DSC_4192 — I took this image of the sky while on a sundowner drinks stop; I was drawn to the way the setting sun was illuminating the linear clouds. South Africa, May 2017.

WPC: Lines

April 22, 2018

2018-04-22: Wide Angles – Stitched Panoramas

I had planned to put together my GoPro clips from Kenya this week, but time slipped away from me, so I have had to put that off until next week. Instead, I am sharing some of the stitched panorama images I have created over several trips.

_DSC2245-Edit — The landscape is rather unremarkable, but I saw this lone impala running and took some shots hoping I could create something like this. Botswana, 2015.

20170511-DSC_4199 Pano copy — A beautiful sunset to accompany a sundowner drinks stop on Phinda. South Africa, May 2017.

DSC_0226-Edit-Edit — The vast skies of the Masai Mara.

DSC_8816-Edit — A group of giraffes amongst the fever trees. Ol Kinyei Conservancy, Kenya.

mara sunrise pano — Sunrise over the Masai Mara. Kenya, 2016.

April 3, 2018April 1, 2018

2018-04-03: WPC Rise/Set

The photo challenge topic of the week is sunrise and sunset. Here is one of each from my travels in Southern Africa.

20170517-DSC_8210 copy — Sunrise on my last dat of safari. May, 2017.

20170505-DSC_2376 copy — A flock of red-billed quelea searching for a spot to roost as night falls over the Okavango Delta. May, 2017

WPC: Rise/Set

March 28, 2018March 25, 2018

2018-03-28: Wordless Wednesday

March 20, 2018March 18, 2018

2018-03-20: WPC: I’d rather be…

There’s a simple answer to the question posed in this week’s photo challenge “Where would you rather be?”.

I’d rather be on safari!

20180320_WPC I'd rather be3.jpg — I’d rather be watching the sun set over the bush with a glass of wine in hand, and great company to have a chat with.

I’d rather be watching the birds from the shade of a lodge veranda.

20180320_WPC I'd rather be2.jpg — I’d rather be looking out at the vast expanse of the universe, listening to the sounds of the bush at night.

I’d rather be taking the opportunity to discover new cultures.

I’d rather be out learning and experiencing different ways of life.

I’d rather be looking at this view over lunch, than working away on my computer.

201803120_I'd rather be Elephants.jpg — And of course, I’d much rather be hanging around with elephants.

WPC: I’d rather be

March 7, 2018March 4, 2018

2018-03-07: Wordless Wednesday

March 6, 2018March 4, 2018

2018-03-06: WPC – Out of this world

The photo challenge topic of the week is out of this world. I’ve chosen to share a stitched panorama image that I shot while exploring the Skeleton Coast in Namibia. We flew to the coast from camp for a day of exploration, and as we were driving through the dunes we came across this beautiful oasis in the middle of vast tracts of featureless sand dunes. It truly was an out of this world landscape to see.

WPC: Out of this world

February 19, 2018February 20, 2018

2018-02-19: Revisiting Old Work

Before I get into today’s post, I wanted to say sorry for the lack of activity over the past week. I made the plunge to move to a new self-hosted website so I could combine my blog and gallery (something I have wanted to do for over a year now). And while the internet does make everything appear to be instantaneous, moving 4+ years of blog posts, migrating a domain to a new hosting provider and setting everything up just takes time. Especially when you aren’t a web professional! My gallery is very much a work in progress, but the blog is up and running as usual, and fingers crossed my followers have been migrated over properly so someone, besides my Mom, has the chance to read this 🙂

I was hoping to get this posted yesterday, but the Happiness Engineers at WordPress just finished with the behind the scenes work to get my followers transferred to the new site. So this post is better late than never.

Given all the behind the scenes work I have been doing, I am really glad I didn’t choose a topic that required me to get out shooting this week.

The photos below don’t have much rhyme or reason, other than they caught my eye when scrolling through my picture folders with the thought that I might be able to make something a bit better out of it now than I could when I shot it.

I hope you enjoy today’s selections, once I get the gallery up and running, I’ll post a note about that and start looking for some feedback on the redesign.

The steely gaze of a vulture perched on a dead tree. I didn’t do much to this; a little cropping, and a bit of work to bring out the texture in the feathers. April, 2013.

If you are in South Africa in November, when the leatherback turtles begin nesting, I would highly recommend the experience of going out to try to see them. It is such an epic experience; but not the best for photography, especially in the rain. The shots I captured were more proof that I was there then anything, and I really didn’t try editing them originally. Here I didn’t do much other than try to bring some of the texture back to the sand and correct the strange colour cast caused by red-lamp flashlights plus camera flash. For a sense of scale, this turtle is basically the size of a VW Bug; it weighed approx. 600 kilos.

Kalahari the cheetah climbing a hill under a dreary late afternoon sky. I loved the vantage point of the images I shot at this time, but the harsh light made them a challenge to work with. October, 2014.

For the then and now section this week, I chose this image of the Sand River at sunrise captured in 2013 on my first journey to Africa. I actually quite like the original edit that I did, so I tried to interpret it in a bit of a different way, focusing on the warmth and the fog on the updated edit.