For those photo aficionados that want to be picky, if you enlarge this image and look closely it does demonstrate a lack of sharpness but I don’t mind this because of the sentiments I have behind this photograph.
Many years ago I visited the clubhouse at Archerfield golf club in East Lothian, Scotland for some lunch. The club is built in a colonial style with the walls covered in fantastic oil paintings of African animals and culture. Apologies that I don’t know the name of the artist but if I find it out I’ll change this post.
One of the paintings that struck me was one of giraffes running. A few years late I was lucky enough to be able to visit Namibia. As I sat at the edge of the salt pan in Etosha National Park, the oil painting of the Giraffes literally unfolded before my eyes.
The reason there is a lack of sharpness in the image is due partially to the heat haze rising from the salt pan and also because I had to crop quite heavily to remove a family of Lions lounging to the left of the scene. I still love the image and it takes pride of place in my living room so I like to forget the inaccuracies due to the fact it is one of the few images I have taken when I had the shot in mind long before I actually saw it.