{"id":75507,"date":"2014-06-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=4a430e444f4232d0b9c7e4a2b12efd36"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:01:11","slug":"beach-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/beach-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe I haven’t posted this photo on my blog before – but oh well, here it is. It looks like a pristine beach with idyllic white sand, but it is in fact the riverbed of the mighty Zambezi river flowing between Zimbabwe and Zambia at this point. I was sitting on the bank of the river in Mana Pools National Park (Zimbabwe), and you can see the escarpment of the Lower Zambezi Valley in Zambia rising up across the river.<\/p>\n

The late afternoon light, combined with the hazy skies due to winter veld fires burning on the Zambian side, gave an otherworldly blissful feel to this, and this certainly echoes what I felt on this first afternoon of my first trip to this magical piece of wilderness.<\/p>\n

I am returning on 29 August 2014 hosting a 4-night photographic safari with Wild Eye and Mwinilunga Safaris, and I can’t wait. There is still a spot or two open for those keen to experience and photograph the magic of Mana Pools – you can find all the details you need HERE.<\/p>\n

Techs:
\nNikon D7000
\nNikkor 70-200mm f2.8 VR-II@ 120mm
\nf5.6 | 1\/500 SS | ISO-640
\nExposure Bias+0.7<\/p>\n

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Beach Elephants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thanks for taking the time to have a look!<\/p>\n

Morkel Erasmus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe I haven’t posted this photo on my blog before – but oh well, here it is. It looks like a pristine beach with idyllic white sand, but it is in fact the riverbed of the mighty Zambezi river flowing between Zimbabwe and Zambia at this point. I was sitting on the bank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":2195581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eZyOc-zq7ug\/UGvFkicMQKI\/AAAAAAAAKwo\/iArPH2RY84I\/s1600\/elephant_river_3a_ManaPools_2012.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Beach Elephants","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[907,2559,2623,2598,2599,3586],"class_list":["post-75507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-elephant","tag-mana-pools-national-park","tag-morkel-erasmus","tag-zambezi-river","tag-zambia","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}