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


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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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.


"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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