The Photo Critic Photo of the Month is awarded to two winners, Luke Brouwers with his quirky street photo “Dreams”, and Koos Fourie with his fantastic action wildlife photograph “Fight for Life”. Congratulations to both Luke and Koos, who each receive a R600 discount on any DPC Course, or Workshop. Well deserved gentlemen!  

Quirky Street Photo by Luke Brouwers

Luke Brouwers. Dreams | ISO-400, 1/200 sec @ f/5.6, Manual, Spot Metering at 163mm(EF-S55-250mm). Edited in Lightroom and Silver Effex

Leopard attacking a young warthog

Koos Fourie. Fight for Life | ISO-640, 1/6400th sec @f/4. Canon 7D, Canon 70-200 f/2.8 L IS II lens with 1.4 Teleconverter

 

The story behind Koos’ image…

“We were travelling in KNP between Skukuza and Lower Sabi and I have decided to select certain settings (for higher speed action) on my camera before starting the trip. We saw the three warthogs running in the road ahead of us. I decided to stop to take a picture of them. I parked my vehicle a little skew in the road opened the window and focused on the biggest warthog. When I pushed the shutter of my camera I heard a noise and thought it was the little ones fighting with one other.

Soon I realised there was a different colour in my viewfinder. My camera was fortunately set on high-speed continuous shooting. There was a lot of action and when the leopard jumped on one of the little warthogs the other two warthogs ran past my car. I thought I was going to see a kill. The next moment the mother came running for behind my vehicle at full speed dropping her head and hit the leopard in the rib-cage. She turned around and hit the leopard again – so hard that the leopard dropped the Warthog she had caught. The mother chased the leopard from the road into a culvert next to the road. The warthogs ran away the leopard snarled at me run past the front of my vehicle and disappearing  in the bush

  

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