Wildlife Photography Rule No.1: Don't Forget To Look Behind You!

Posted by Queuebot in Animal, Pictures on June 11, 2009 at 3:39 pm



Photo: Tim Greenleaf / National Geographic Expeditions

When Ford Cochran, National Geographic Blog Wild editor, asks Nat Geo photographer Tim Greenleaf for some advice, here’s what he has to say:

When I stopped by his office this morning to pick it up, he asked if I’d seen this photo he shot in view of Mount Kilimanjaro during a visit to Kenya’s Amboseli National Park.

“Photography rule number one,” he admonished. “Don’t forget to look behind you!”

In fairness, Tim noted that the photographer and videographer above might have been filming, say, Amboseli’s deeply endangered lions rather than the elephants. But still.

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12 comments to "Wildlife Photography Rule No.1: Don't Forget To Look Behind You!"

  1. alexx
    June 11th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    "But still."

    As best I can tell, that means "I know that what I/you just said doesn't support my argument, and might even disprove it entirely, BUT I STILL think you should agree with my argument.

  2. Woogie
    June 11th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    HAHAHAHAHA! HAHHAHHAHAAHAHAA! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! WOOHOOO! BWAAAHHAHAHA!

  3. Michelle Bivotti
    June 11th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    Hehe:) very funny

  4. Martijn
    June 11th, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    May seem funny, but the lens that that guy has on his camera is such a large zoomlens that it probably doesn't make sense anyway to take a picture of that elephant- unless he perhaps wanted to photograph a hair on the elephants back or something.

  5. Kalel
    June 11th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    I hope that Jeep has plenty of trunkspace.

  6. Johnny Cat
    June 12th, 2009 at 1:07 am

    Sure, Martijn, but what about the redundant videographer? He's the one asleep at the wheel here, IMHO.

  7. Johnny Cat
    June 12th, 2009 at 1:10 am

    If in fact, there's not something way more interesting going on over to the right. I bet there is. It is probably lions being all LOL and catlike. Yes, I read it the first time.

  8. Foreigner1
    June 12th, 2009 at 4:15 am

    .... TRUMPETTT!!!

    Hihi...! Scared ya didn't I...?

  9. ted
    June 12th, 2009 at 6:42 am

    You can see anoht elephant in the back on the right, so the probability is that there's a lot more happening in the direction they're looking.

  10. ForestWander Nature Photography
    June 12th, 2009 at 7:20 am

    Very cool.

    I would love to go on a trip like this.

    That looks like some vehicle you are in...

  11. dorkafork
    June 12th, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    I've heard of people ignoring the elephant in the room, but I've never seen photographic evidence before.

  12. BadBubby
    June 13th, 2009 at 4:44 am

    @forkadork.
    It is NOT a room! Can YOU see any walls?


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