A Few of My Africa Pictures

This summer, my dad, my uncle, my aunt, and I hopped on a plane and went to Namibia. My dad was going on his 3rd (or was it 4th?!) African safari, and decided to bring my uncle along for his first big game hunt. Michelle and I tagged along as the "team photographers". Official, right?

Here's my dad, trying to convince my Aunt Michelle not to go home when the going got tough at Sea-Tac. Our flight was delayed by 6 hours and we had to rebook every step of the way from there on out. :(



The horrible flights were worth it though, because here's the bed I slept in every night! King sized beds with heated blankets were in everyone's tents to keep us warm during African winter nights.



Ostriches, running from our jeep as we went out in the afternoon to look for a trophy Kudu. They're much bigger in real life!



Here is (foreground to background) my uncle Howard, our tracker Jonas, my dad Scott, and our PH (professional hunter) Jamie Trautt. The guys went out to look for blesbuck, leaving the women-folk in the jeep to twiddle their thumbs.



Giraffes at sunset- how could you get a more typical "Africa picture"? Keep looking. (This was edited to up the brightness in the foreground because driving around in an open jeep isn't the greatest place to take a good long exposure shot.)



Acacia trees at sunset! This has been edited to bring back out the color of the sky, because it was taken my last night out in the jeep, going much too fast over too many bumps for a long exposure.



These last two were taken the second night in Eden at the waterhole outside the dining hut (which really shouldn't be called a hut, it's more of a dining hall!). I was fiddling around with different settings trying to get cool effects!



This shot, believe it or not, probably took about 35 seconds. The Waterbuck in the foreground stood completely still, staring me down through the lens of my camera for the entire shot!




These are only a smaaaall percentage of the pictures I took, but they're some of the highlights of the trip. If my dad's new article gets published though, you can look forward to seeing more of my pictures IN PRINT! My dad writes articles for various and sundry gun magazines (EEP no guns in school :S) so a few of the pictures I took are being shipped out with his article about Africa.