Wildebeest at Twilight, Linyanti Concession, Botswana
Wildebeest don’t get much respect. Not from the predators that consider them their main food source, or from the locals who claim that they are made up of all the spare parts that the other animals didn’t want. As the saying goes, they have the tail of a horse, the quarters of a hyena, the stripes of a zebra, the mane of a lion, the horn of a buffalo, the brain of a bird, and the face of a grasshopper. All of which kind of makes me like them even more. This one was photographed at the tail end of twilight one night in the Linyanti swamp area of northern Botswana. The sexy beast was just still enough, watching a herd of elephants, to allow me to capture several exposures and combine them in post.
Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 70mm) ISO 800, f/2.8 at 1/13th, 1/25th, 1/50th, 1/100th and 1/200th of a second shutter speeds