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Just Passing Through
From Nikon World Summer 2009
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Majed Sultan Ali is a computer engineer and a serious amateur photographer—serious enough to wear camouflage clothing in order not to disturb the animals when he takes to the Kuwaiti desert on spring weekends to photograph; serious enough to use the recorded “voices” of animals and birds to attract his subjects.
He made this photograph in the Subah reserve with a D300 and an AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 200-400mm f/4G IF-ED. The exposure was 1/640 second at f/5.6, ISO 320. He chose aperture-priority and center-weighted metering. The 200-400mm lens is, he says, an amazing lens for wildlife photography—fast, sharp, with great range.
Wild cats are rarely seen in daylight, and when Majed spotted this one he lay down flat on the sand and started shooting. At one point he noticed something small fly into the frame. The D300 was equipped with an MB-D10 Multi-Power Battery Pack, enabling eight frames per second, but it wasn’t until he reviewed his photos that he confirmed that he’d actually caught the flying ant in the picture.
No word on whether the cat caught it too.
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