I found another cool photography challenge in my WordPress reader. This one is by the Lens-Artists. They have a challenge every Saturday. The topic for this week is Landscapes.
I don’t usually take a whole lot of ‘landscape’ photos. If anything I take ‘seascapes’. I take more photos of ‘things’. Like animals, or plants, or flowers, or boats, or even people (tho I’m not real comfortable taking photos of people yet).
I recently took a long trip overseas. Part of it was a week long photo safari in Tanzania. The animals were amazing, but I have to admit I was equally impressed by the landscape. It was just so wide open. Miles and miles of nothing but the tall grass waving in the wind. Maybe a lone tree on the horizon. Or a herd of buffalo slowly making their way across a river.
I loved how everything seemed so wide open. There were so many miles of space with no sign of mankind (even tho of course we did see towns and villages full of people while passing through). The landscapes sometimes seemed empty, but if you looked harder there was always some sign of life. Maybe an ostrich popped up from under that lone tree. Or a lioness wandering by a herd of wildebeest, or a bird hiding in the grass or basking in a far off lake.
I don’t get to see so many wide open and interesting spaces around here. Even tho Texas probably has more of them than most. My neighborhood is on the wide coastal plains but full of homes and businesses (mostly chemical plants).
I do have some wildlife around my house: raccoons, opossums, owls, squirrels, bats, rats, etc. We even see an occasional coyote around the beach. Somehow it’s not the same. Compared to the African landscape, the one around here is pretty boring. 😉
What a fabulous trip! Remarkable photos of the landscape and wildlife. I’m in wow!
Thank you for the post!
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thanks- yes, it was a great trip. I was gone for almost 2 months, the safari was only 1 week of it. 🙂
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Great photos – some of the shots reminded me of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom (or does that date me too much?).
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Thank you Shelly. I did get some great animal photos. Here I was trying to concentrate on just the landscape. I need to go through my photos and pick out the really good animal ones. 🙂
PS- I used to watch Wild Kingdom every Sunday night. And Wonderful World of Disney was on then too.
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Yes, I hope I catch the animal shots when you share them! I adored both of those shows, too! Made for a fun family Sunday night for us when I was growing up.
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Yep, same here.
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Love your closing image Jill, and welcome to our challenge
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Thanks Tina. 🙂
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Breathtaking. I am taken by the vastness of these landscapes and to see a singular is my favorite,
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thank you, I appreciate your comments and I’m glad you like my photos.
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These are wonderful, CJ (may I call you CJ?)
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Hi Jill, Your post is not showing on my post. If you have a moment, do you mind to make a link to my post https://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/2019/07/27/70172/
and/or link mine to yours. This will help Lens Artists followers to find your post when they come to mine since I am host it. 🙂 Apologize for the trouble.
Thank you so much!
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Hi Amy,
No trouble, I will try to fix it. I don’t know what’s up with that. I did put a link in for your post when I originally made the post. I just re-did it. I hope it’s working now. Please let me know if it’s not.
Thank for letting me know it wasn’t working. I always love your posts, your photos are beautiful and so are so many of the others. 🙂
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Thank you, Jill! Sorry for the trouble. Next time try to copy the hettps://… from your completed post (not the edit or WP Admin.) It might work better. Love to see your post and travel with you. 🙂
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thanks Amy, I hope it’s working now. Next time I will do that, I usually do it that way.
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