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Phew wee ... nice one Kremlin!

At first look I thought this was someone's model train set! (BTW You can call them "Bontebok" - we know what you mean!)

Thanks for the ID Eugene

We hunted online for answers .. but all them horns looked the same ..

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Brent Best

Sorry - I thought you were being cultured! I know a Bontebok is an antelope - but I have my doubts whether it is a Gazelle. Will have to run the question past the family zoologist. A Blesbok is just a Bontebok with a different paint job - BTW. Bontebok nearly became extinct in the nineteenth century and only due to the dedicated work and breeding program of some farmers in Bredasdorp area were they saved. (Modestly does not mention his family involvemment!)

The zoologist's reply: .

That picture really does look like a model train set! How far would you guesstimate that you were away when you took that picture Brent?

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Magic Eugene ... Antelopes they are then

Google Earth puts me at 500m from the train front. The blurry effect which gives it that scale look, is done via Photoshop CS6 & is called "tilt-shift".


The original before the scale effect.


A 100% crop from the original photo.

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Brent Best

Impressive stuff The infrastructure there (train, overhead lines, supports, gravel) looks good - almost new.

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I was going to suggest slowing your shutter speed and upping your f-stop to get more depth of field. Glad I shut up. Better not tell Doug about the photoshop - he'll never trust your pics again!

I've sent a copy of Kremlin's train pic to my brother who is an avid railway modeller...and want to see if it will fool him. I too thought it was a model. As for all the hi-jinx in photoshop....baah! I've just entered a photo competion (1st prize a 500mm lens...watch out Kremlins)...and the competition rules are very specific in excluding photoshopping....as they look out exactly for evidence of tampering! So wish me luck with my Malachite Kingfisher entry - If I'm lucky I too can zoom.

Good luck - but only if you sat in a hide for hours waiting for the dumb bird to land on the stokkie in front of it and risked getting droppings on your pate! (I can recall one session with beeaters - who are faster than a speeding bullet - where in 8 hours no pictures of note were taken but the beret on the head got many direct hits.)

Wishing you luck ... We will keep everything crossable, crossed for you Doug

btw. Lucky you were wearing a beret Eugene ...

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Brent Best

Yup, used to do the same when I flew slope. Pick a bush that looks softish and then try and hit it. I used to fly way out and down below just keeping in the lift and then turn back and fly up the slope and judge it so that the glider basically ran out of airspeed and lift as it arrived at the bush and just mushed in. Pretty awesome when you get it right, you can land within a few feet of yourself. But get it wrong... eish!

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The mrs & I went to snap the Spanish ship at the V&A Waterfront this afternoon. When we left home it was blistering 30° hot ..!! At the harbour, a meagre 25km's later it was freezing & we wished we had brought our jackets ... a FOG bank was rolling in

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Brent Best

Absolutely amazing! Has it lifted? Great pics though ....

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Don't know how long it stayed all fogged up .... on our return, it only started thinning out around the N7. Once back home it was hot & humid again

It was a real weird daytime experience

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