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Yep Zambian vehicle was in 2013 crossing the Mupamadzi river north of South Luangwa border on other side. My wife decided to walk across, 200m further we’re about 80 odd Elephant…
Brilliant. We used to go to South Luangwa on a regular basis as it was an easy days drive from Malawi where I lived for a while.
 
The Doc's rule of thirds applies here. An image is one third equipment, one third technique and one third post processing. Points 2 and 3 are cheaper than a new camera.
I dunnknow. Rule number one for me taking pictures, and the only rule, is Cartier-Bresson "modified". The rest is a learned skill. He suggested in the age of film to 'Take lots of pictures, but not too many so as to not miss the shot in between'. Now, with a high speed camera, and 20k shots RAW per 512gb scandisk, it's reduced to to "take lots of shots". Professional photographers get the great shots at sporting vents, because the finger is planted on the button of a great piece of equipment. You can't process it, if you didn't capture it.

I use to keep the camera on the dashboard and when I had an older friend with me in South America riding shotgun I told him to take some pics as we went along. It was an early 5 axis image stabilized olympus. He was into nudes back then, kind of an old perv. So, he's sitting there, trying to frame, and take a pic, repeat, etc etc etc. Finally I say "wtf are you doing??? This isn't portrait studio. Put it on burst and hammer it or you're just wasting your fucking time, I have enough memory for a million pics in the glove compartment". He got pissed and put the camera down, mumbling about proper framing and lighting.
 
Random you say?
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Here's a series that'll be tough to replicate since cell phones are ubiquitous. Children in a remote area, seeing their picture for the first time.

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I’ve seen why a moose does to a car… elephant?
Unfortunately an articulated truck slowed down for a small elephant herd, the truck behind thought the one in front was pulling over so decided to overtake, with catastrophic consequences, two elephants hit at speed the mother killed on impact and the younger one dragging itself around with two Broken back legs ! The truck was upside down with completely crushed cab. We got there minutes after it happened and whilst younger elephant was dragging itself into the bush with broken legs. Apparently the driver was pulled out alive but minus his legs and ferried off to the closest town several hours away. Unfortunately he was never going to make it the nearest hospital by all accounts ! Word gets around quickly and along with the never ending passing trucks stopping, there were many people straight away bringing out their pangas/machetes to skin and butcher the elephants for meat. The wildlife authorities turned up and dispatched the injured elephant and immediately set about removing the tusks from the elephants with axes, that’s all they were interested in. Meanwhile battered old pickup trucks laden with people from nearby villages turned up with pangas for the free meat. Life is harsh out there and even though the crash was horrific, most people were just interested in free meat.
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