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BrianBasson

Dragonfly

Dragonfly

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iPhone 6s

settings

Aperture f/2.2 ISO 40 Shutter 1/33 Focal Length 83/20

upload_date

upload_date

Mar, 2017

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121

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+3

Awards

Peer Award

Top Choice

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Animals

Platinum

Perfect detail and clarity. I was told by a photo instructor that looking down on a dragon was the only way to get complete focus of the bird head to tail, wingtip to wingtip. In this one you at least proved it's possible. Great job!

perfect catch...well done!

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Male giraffes will engage in necking to establish dominance.
They use their necks as weapons in combat, a behavior known as

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Fields of lavender from horizon to horizon, as far as the eye can see. No, this is not France but Tasmania, Aus

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Photo taken in the Tuli Safari Area, Botswana.
A large cat, with a powerfully-built body and comparatively short

Came across this owl chick in a fork in a tree in our base camp, while on safari in Botswana. For me, it was heaven sent as I could at long last satis

Giant Eagle Owl - South Africa

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Location: Tuli Safari Area, NE Botswana

This photo was taken at Mabula Game Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa.

Red Hot Pokers occur naturally in all the nine provinces of South Africa. Kwa-Zulu Natal possesses the highest number of Kniphofia species, compared t

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Green Tree Frog Portrait © Brian Basson Photography

Shot taken in Makuze Game Reserve, South Africa June, 2016.

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Oribi Gorge is situated along the spectacular forest-cloaked ravine of the Mzimkulwana river just west of Port Shepstone which itself is 120 km south

Cheetah on the Hunt in Botswana © Brian Basson

The mopane caterpillar, is an important source of protein for millions of indigenous Southern Africans. Wikipedia

Mopane (sometimes spelled Mopani)

3,400 m above sea level and the tree line.

These two shepherds were high up in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho, southern Africa.

Dirt Road Botswana © Brian Basson 2014

In the past 5 years 250,000 of these amazing cats have been killed for fashion. In the past 50 years the leopard population has declined from 700,000

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