{"id":824,"date":"2016-10-01T07:52:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T13:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2016-10-01T09:14:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T15:14:51","slug":"south-africa-and-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"South Africa and Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m back from two weeks in southern Africa, the photographic portion of which included stops in Kruger National Park, Etosha National Park, and the Namib desert. The trip was actually a honeymoon, so we planned it more to get a taste for a new (to us) part of the world than to get photos… but still we made plenty of pre-dawn starts and came back with a hefty haul of images!<\/p>\n

I’ll likely post more detailed reflections on the trip once the dust has settled and my evaluation of the images can be separated from the emotions of seeing leopards, cheetahs and lions in the wild for the first time. For now here’s a taster of some of the sights.<\/p>\n

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Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Giraffes,<\/a>

Giraffes, Kruger National Park<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Namib desert<\/p><\/div>\n

\"At<\/a>

At the waterhole, Etosha National Park<\/p><\/div>\n

All of these photos were taken with a Canon 5D Mk3 and the 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6 II lens, both of which performed superbly throughout the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m back from two weeks in southern Africa, the photographic portion of which included stops in Kruger National Park, Etosha National Park, and the Namib desert. The trip was actually a honeymoon, so we planned it more to get a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locations","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}