August 18, 2012

Although this shot was an accident, I find it strangely appealing! 
The birds were running in a section of the
Hluhluwe Imfolozi Park that was destroyed by fire earlier this week. 
 In an attempt to get motion blur in the background, with the Guinea fowl  in focus,
I rested my camera on the half open window and tried to drive next to the running birds.
Unfortunately the camera slid down the slanting edge of the window and this was the result!
The photo somehow conveys the terror that runaway fires cause to all creatures- great and small.
"Running from the Fire" therefore seems like an ideal name for this shot.