Photography News issue 19

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As we had the whole Land Rover to ourselves, driver Steve was happy to linger so everyone had the chance to get shots from different angles as the animals moved around. It was nice to have a more relaxed approach, although with five photographers in the back of the vehicle there was a good deal of movement and jostling to get the right viewpoint. Once we were ‘lioned out’, the cheetahs were next. The cheetahs had just been fed too so were busy gnawing and it was a matter of patience until a creature looked up. When that happened cameras sparked into life but generally it wasn’t an easy environment to photograph. The background of fallen trees was messy and sunlit chain-link fencing in the foreground didn’t help. Of the four carnivore enclosures the wolves were the least photographically interesting. They had situated themselves some distance away and were lying down so looked nothing more than balls of fur – even a very long telephoto was not much use. That was the end of the big cats and carnivores so we went to the Monkey Drive Thru and here we had great fun watching and photographing the monkeys interacting with the vehicles, ie. pulling off car aerials and in one case removing an Audi’s rearview wiper. It wasn’t typical of wild behaviour of course but entertaining nevertheless and definitely worth photographing. The safari was scheduled to last two hours but that time really flew by and everyone had shot several hundred images. Back at the VIP hut, it was time to download cards so we had a copy of the readers’ pictures. Thanks to the Samsung’s impressive data transfer speed and USB3.0, this didn’t take long at all, and soon we were saying our goodbyes before heading for home. On safari with lions and tigers one minute, stationary on the M4 motorway the next, but totally worth it for a taste of the wild.

To record their experiences each reader was given a Samsung SD 32GB PRO memory cards. The flagship PRO range features Class 10, Grade 1 cards with data transfer speeds up to 90MB/s. High-speed performance is just one important attribute. The cards are also designed to deliver reliable performance time after time even in challenging conditions and they are water, shock, temperature, magnet and X-ray proof. For photographers and video makers wanting leading performance, highly reliable storage media at a competitive prices, Samsung’s range has something for you. π To find out more, go to samsung.com. SamsungSDPROcards LEFT “I stuck my DSLR to 10fps and shot away. Images wrote to the Samsung PRO SD card with no buffering,” says Terry Wall. BELOW “I have been on safari, to Sri Lanka,” says Andy Ames, “and there was a lot of hanging around. Here, having the animals just there is great.”

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Cheung, Terry Wall, Longleat VIP driver Steve Tuff, Steve Ininns, Barry Horne, Jayne Bond and Andy Ames. Longleat is launching special Up Close Photographic VIP Tours. These tours will give photographers the opportunity to get as meeting one of their experienced keepers, a keen photographer himself, who will show you the art of capturing the best safari scenes. © To find out more, go to www. longleat.co.uk. some fantastic pictures as well

Photography News | Issue 19