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Thanks, Imants. I was thinking how to photograph this without making it look like a picture postcard — the general problem I have in photogarphing something scenic. In colour it doesn't work at all, as it needs heightened contrast to show the force of the water. But look what I did to this poor zebra in terms of contrast:

 

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D-Lux 3

 

—Mitch/Bangkok

Flickr: Photos from Mitch Alland

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Mitch -

 

Delightful, not the dry season, and classic. When we were in this spot we didn't know whether to look at the falls, the striped mongooses, or the foolish photographer going well beyond the low barrier.

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Jaap:

 

There was a fantastic shot facing the other way, downriver, where you looked right into the sun, down the gorge: the pciture would have had a bridge crossing the gorge and the river would have been burnt out to paper white. It would have been a great graphic shot. The trouble is that I was at a conference, staying at the hotel at the Zambian side of the falls. This was the only free time I had: unfortunately I had walked down to the falls without my wallet and I could not rent a plastic sheet and the mist at the spot where you could look down river into the gorge was as if it was raining — there was no way I could take out my D-Lux 3 without ruining; so the shot exists only in my mind.

 

—Mitch/Bangkok

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/

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Jaap:

 

There was a fantastic shot facing the other way, downriver, where you looked right into the sun, down the gorge: the pciture would have had a bridge crossing the gorge and the river would have been burnt out to paper white. It would have been a great graphic shot. The trouble is that I was at a conference, staying at the hotel at the Zambian side of the falls. This was the only free time I had: unfortunately I had walked down to the falls without my wallet and I could not rent a plastic sheet and the mist at the spot where you could look down river into the gorge was as if it was raining — there was no way I could take out my D-Lux 3 without ruining; so the shot exists only in my mind.

 

—Mitch/Bangkok

Flickr: Photos from Mitch Alland

 

I must confess, Mitch, that I did not care for the rain-cape last time as it was too hot and simply walked through with my 10D, drowned the thing- and it kept on working... It stopped Patricia's DVcam though. I have been there a few times, and it is a favorite spot.

I can't post shots, as they are non-Leica:(

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Jaap:

 

There was a fantastic shot facing the other way, downriver, where you looked right into the sun, down the gorge: the pciture would have had a bridge crossing the gorge and the river would have been burnt out to paper white. It would have been a great graphic shot. The trouble is that I was at a conference, staying at the hotel at the Zambian side of the falls. This was the only free time I had: unfortunately I had walked down to the falls without my wallet and I could not rent a plastic sheet and the mist at the spot where you could look down river into the gorge was as if it was raining — there was no way I could take out my D-Lux 3 without ruining; so the shot exists only in my mind.

 

—Mitch/Bangkok

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/

 

 

Was it something like this? I scaled it down not to pass it off as a Leica shot. I liked the spray-band around the sun.

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