Formidable photographic prowess

by jasonbstanding · Published Tuesday 12th November, 2013 · Updated Tuesday 12th November, 2013

It’s fair to say that point-n-shoot compact cameras are good, but they’re not completely idiot proof. As I discovered on my recent trip to South Africa.

Thankfully, not *all* of my photos of the Rhino & Lion Park near Johannesburg were quite so, well, frigging useless.

: Some rhinos, juxtaposed with an ostrich arse

: A pair of rhinoceroses.

: Warthogs are brilliant.

: This was the best of my efforts to get a picture of a giraffe tongue.

: Giraffes are the finest animals alive.

: Sleepy tiger. Siberian, I think.

: Sleepy boy lion with 2 sleepy girl lions.

: You think I snore. You should’ve heard the racket this thing was making.

: Stripey horse.

: This was the other type of tiger. Bengal, I think.

: A tiger, in Africa?!

: The colours fade if you leave them in the sun.

One person I showed these to commented that it’s a shame that you can see the wire fences in some of them, and speaking as someone who was standing about 7 feet away from a huge muscular predator – I didn’t find the fences in the slightest bit offputting. In hindsight it’s only a shame I didn’t take a more “contexty” shot of the fences to illustrate just how token they actually were.

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