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Buffalo Bull in the Dust

African buffalo bull facing the camera, dust rising around it, backlit by golden late-afternoon light, with other buffalo close behind against green foliage.

Plate XVII · Plate XVII · Simbambili, South Africa, December 2020Sony A7 III · 200mm ƒ/5.6 · 1/250 · ISO 400

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A buffalo bull stands square to the camera with the herd pressed close around him, dust hanging in the late sun and the low light rimming the curve of his horn boss and back. At 200 mm the backlit dust turns to gold against a wall of bush already falling into shadow.

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