Genets can be common visitors around camps at night throughout much of Africa. This one came for a visit one night in Botswana. I’ll usually take my camera to dinner with me in hopes of such an encounter. Genets are sometimes called genet cats, but they aren’t cats at all and are more closely related to the mongoose. Nikon D800 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 200mm) ISO 640, f/4 at 1/60th of a second, two Nikon SB-900 flash units
i think we should come -up with a new name for this one of kind aminal. ) ( like mong loose, wich is a cross beween a goosse and mongoose cat. ) great pic. keep -up the good work.
While admiring your picture of the genet, and generally, almost all your pictures, i wondered how you got the 2 strobes, and the zoom lens all together to photograph the genet, if these are anything like a mongoose, the beastie will certainly not hold still, unless you managed to arrest its attention; how did you do it?
Good question. My wife was holding one of the flashes and the other was on a bracket attached to my camera. Meanwhile, my guide was holding a flash, enabling me to get focus on the genet. They are quick, but this one was drawn in by the smell of our dinner, so was poking around a bit before taking off. I do a lot of nocturnal photography and sometimes go out by myself. This can be difficult because I have to use a headlamp to gain focus, and sometimes use an external flash, which I have on a tripod that I have to place down before taking the shot. Always nice to have the help of a guide. And a wife.
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Genets can be common visitors around camps at night throughout much of Africa. This one came for a visit one night in Botswana. I’ll usually take my camera to dinner with me in hopes of such an encounter. Genets are sometimes called genet cats, but they aren’t cats at all and are more closely related to the mongoose.
i think we should come -up with a new name for this one of kind aminal. ) ( like mong loose, wich is a cross beween a goosse and mongoose cat. ) great pic. keep -up the good work.
While admiring your picture of the genet, and generally, almost all your pictures, i wondered how you got the 2 strobes, and the zoom lens all together to photograph the genet, if these are anything like a mongoose, the beastie will certainly not hold still, unless you managed to arrest its attention; how did you do it?
Good question. My wife was holding one of the flashes and the other was on a bracket attached to my camera. Meanwhile, my guide was holding a flash, enabling me to get focus on the genet. They are quick, but this one was drawn in by the smell of our dinner, so was poking around a bit before taking off. I do a lot of nocturnal photography and sometimes go out by myself. This can be difficult because I have to use a headlamp to gain focus, and sometimes use an external flash, which I have on a tripod that I have to place down before taking the shot. Always nice to have the help of a guide. And a wife.
great detail of its coat!
—– A young apache poised
—– The festivities to join
—– Just him and night’s music .