Giraffe

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Kruger National Park, South Africa

Fuji S2 digital, Nikon 80-400 VR

People focused on seeing all the "big five" game animals - lions, leopards, Cape buffalo, elephants and I forget the last one - during their visit to a park in Africa don't seem to get very excited about giraffes. It's true there are a lot of them. But they are incredible animals, wonderful to look at and to watch.

Hard to photograph, however. The roughly 3:2 framesize of a slide or digital image simply isn't ideally designed for animal this long and tall.