Just a simple shot of a wombat doing what wombats do — eating grass. For the most part, wombats are pretty accommodating subjects, but sometimes you have to be patient to wait for them to lift their faces off the ground. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 350mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/125th of a second.
A Facebook friend recently posted about Zanzibar and it took me back nearly 20 years to when I visited the island. This was my first real wildlife trip. I had been traveling on the mainland of Tanzania for three weeks, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and then going on my very first safari. I ran out of film, of course, because that’s what you did on your first African safari before digital cameras. I remember buying some off-brand film from a local vendor in Stone Town in Zanzibar. The scan is bad (also about twenty years old) but I did what I could with the file to fix the strange color cast and grain and all that. As for the monkey, it’s an endangered Zanzibar red colobus monkey. They were quite habituated to people (one of the reasons they are endangered — along with the bigger problem of habitat loss). Nikon FM2 with Nikkor 85mm lens. No idea of the other camera settings.
This shot of an impala was taken in Tarangire National Park in Tanzania, Africa back in 1999 — my first wildlife excursion out of the country and the trip that made me want to do this for a living. I’m still working on the doing it for a living part.