The Global Photographer

Well, after 21 days of being away, I am finally back home from Tanzania. I had two absolutely fantastic safari groups, and we had some incredible opportunities to watch and photograph the wildlife, landscapes and people of northern Tanzania. I was amazed at the quality of light on this trip, as the afternoon thunderstorms added a very nice landscape element to photograph.

I have roughly 50GB of images to process, spanning 4 different camera bodies. My primary shooting kit was as follows:

• 1DMkII


• 1DsMkII


• 20D


• 16-35mm


• 24-105mm


• 100-400mm


• 500mm (400mm f/4 DO when my 500mm was rented)

I also had access to a Hasselblad H2 camera body with a Hasselblad CFH39 digital back attached. The lenses used were the 80mm prime, 50-110mm and 300mm with a 1.7 teleconverter. I will be posting my experiences with medium format willdife photography in the coming days.

I will be processing my images when Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 ships next week. Until then, I will use CS2 Bridge to view and cull some of my images that don't make the cut.

I am glad to be back home, but I look forward to returning to Africa in June.