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Black rhinoceros

This is hardly a "good" picture, but it's an important one from my Safari a few years ago in South Africa. We searched all four days to see a Bl...
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This is hardly a "good" picture, but it's an important one from my Safari a few years ago in South Africa. We searched all four days to see a Black rhinoceros, and lucked out very late one night just as it was about too dark to even seen (). These beautiful, gigantic, animals are sadly still hunted just for their horns. Though a lot is being done to protect them, so much more is needed to make sure they won't go extinct like the White rhinoceros did. For the photographers out there, it was dark enough that this was shot at ISO 8000 and still the best shutter speed I could accomplish was 1-40s.

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