A few more from my travels in South Africa. The shot of the Wild Cat was through thicket, I could not see it! I laid on the floor and placed the camera with the 300 lens into the thicket. The Ranger asked me to slowly get up and walk backwards. Then I saw the Puff Adder, he said it was right near my trouser leg, no sound was heard when it appeared. He radioed for another Ranger to take it away, apparently they are highly dangerous. I quickly took a snap!! Went back to taking the shot of the Wild Cat.
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We recently spent three weeks in southern Africa (Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cape Town), 16 days in the bush and the remainder in Cape Town. After a good deal of reading and thinking, I decided to purchase the Canon SX50 and take it as my only camera. I also took a monopod which I placed between my legs on the floor of the jeep and, for the most part, it worked very well. I shot a good deal in shutter priority and I had the “vivid” selection on for most of the stills and the video. Of course not all of my pictures were good, even with the monopod, but I got a number of good ones, at least to my standards. CC at will.