Category: Photo safari
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This year: Safari in South Africa
This is decided! This year I’ll go on a photo safari in South Africa in private natural reserves (not far from the famous Kruger National Park). It’s set specially for Leopard by Objectif Nature (specialized tour operator from France). Last year, I went for the first time to a photo safari to meet the felines…
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Best posts of 2006
It is now the time to look back at the year 2006 and to check what you really liked in the Roumazeilles.net web site. So, here are the posts viewed the most in the past year. Is it a surprise? Canon 40D crushes 30D prices, at least, that was the rumour. But the prices went…
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Marcus Karlsen Minolta lens reviews
Marcus Karlsen is a young photographer who is publishing a lot of nice images from his many travels around the world. But it is not only because of his photos that I want to point you at his web site. He is also hosting very detailed and pro-looking reviews of some of the best tele-lenses…
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Wild animals have a web site to show their best
This is really the feeling you have when you visit the web site of Christine and Michel Denis-Huot where you will find some of their best images or those that were most successful, from their work as wildlife photographers. I heartily recommend the images primées (awards). Michel and Christine spend months out of their home…
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Ben WILHELMI
Ben Wilhelmi is a photographer I like a lot. He has a nice web site with galleries of powerful safari photos. All his images seem different, but they share an invariable personal requirement for quality.
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PD70x: Possibly a problem with dirty contacts
You learned a few days ago that I had some problems with random errors in my Compact Drive PD70x flash card portable hard disk reader. It seems (I’m not 100% sure) that it came from dirty contacts between the hard disk drive and the electronics. I actually cleaned quickly those (thanks to Compact Drive for…
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Some insecurity in the Maasai Mara Park
It seems to be well under Kenyan authorities control but, on 22th of August 2005, vans of a safari photo tourists has been attacked by Kenyan bandits while returning from a safari in the Masai Mara National Park. Two Japanese tourists were lightly wounded; The others (Japanese, Americans and South-Africans) returned directly to the safety…
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PD70X: An incident?
As I still advise to buy a CompactDrive PD70X to empty your Flash memory cards, I had to inform you about a weird little series of incidents I have had these recent days with my own device. To my knowledge, the Compact Drive PD70x is only available from MacWay (in France) at a reasonable cost…
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West African black rhinos declared extinct
A scientific study recently suggested that these animals that were present in West Africa no longer exist in the wild and the species went extinct in this part of the world. Actually, the expected last animals failed to be found in Northern Cameroon. Consequently, the West African black rhino sub-species has been tentatively declared extinct.…