I am unashamedly a wildlife photographer, and as such love both animals and the gear that lets me get up close and personal with them. The arrival of the Canon RF 200-800 is a significant change in the latter: not only for its reach, but for the sharpness of the lens that allows me to crop even further.
The following two images were taken hand-held and cropped in post to get the isolation and composition I really wanted.
Give that Zebra are evolved so that by standing together their strips created a disruptive pattern that confuses predators, it can also be a challenge to capture, and the classic image is one of a line of such animals at a water hole. Until I can get that one, these will have to do...
Thank you for your generous comment, Steve. Not my best work by any means, but I have not been able to shoot for a while and it's still a challenge for me, especially with a beefy lens like the 200-800.
The originals were framed for a much bigger composition, which I shall post here, so the images above involve a lot of cropping that the camera and lens were reasonably tolerant of.
