Remember BAYWATCH? I am sure then you remember those beauties that bounced and ran on the beach?馃榿
Well, I found a different kind of bouncing beauty in the wild...
I was roaming around on the weekend in a large grassland. The grassland is pretty much at an off-beat location and there was not a single human in sight.
I was out there looking for some raptors to photograph. However, the birds had probably decided to take the day off 馃槃
I could not spot a single bird of prey or for that matter, ANY bird of significance even after roaming around for 2 hours. I was about to give up and go home when, over the horizon, wandered in a group of black bucks.
They were in a frolicking, happy mood too. For no reason, a few of them suddenly started bounding up and down. Leaping over each other and in the process, leaping almost 5-6 feet in the air.
These 4-5 young bucks seemed to particularly enjoy suddenly leaping in all different directions at once!
The grown males were jumping too, as they ran. All 4 hooves off ground. The picturesque pink flowers in the green grass, the blue sky and the handsome buck was a treat for the eyes...
On my other side, where the grass was dry due to the lack of water, another group of black-bucks was up to their usual bouncing too! Here is a young buck jumping and running around...
The leader of the clan, a lovely male adult black buck with large twisted horns, kept a keen eye on his heard. He also watched me curiously. At one point of time, he walked right up to my car and stared at me..
It was awesome to see the grown male buck at such close range. I almost forgot to click. Instinct took over, luckily and I managed to click couple of shots before he suddenly got alarmed and retreated.
The whole bouncing show lasted for about 5 minutes and then, just as suddenly and silently the herd had appeared over the ridge, it retreated...
Left behind was silence, long expanse of waving grass and me.....
I spent more than half a day that day in that grassland but was happy to get these clicks...
Here are the settings I used:
- ISO 100 (Due to the bright sunlight)
- Shutter 1/1000 (to capture and freeze the fast action)
- Handheld
- Lens 200-500 Nikkor
- Camera Nikon D500
It is due to the fast frame rates of todays digital cameras that it is possible to freeze suchh amazing action in frames I really enjoyed taking these freeze action shotts
What do you think ? Have you attempted or would you attempt anything like this in photography? If so, please share your experience in comments.
Please comment freely and let me know your opinion. I will try to bring many different types of wildlife photos/macro/Astro posts to the community. Feedback and comments are welcome,. I am still learning many techniques and always value feedback from experts in this community.
Have a nice day everyone. Cheers!