Getaway Gallery Competition February 2020
Here’s the latest selection of the best readers’ photographs submitted to the Getaway Gallery Photographic Competition for February 2020.
Getaway Gallery is a prestigious showcase of the best photographs our readers have to offer. We have exciting prizes to be won this year worth over R162,000. Enter now.
Finalist – Fynbos Emerald – Malachite sunbirds are difficult to photograph because they’re always
moving around. When a misty cloud covered the Simonsberg, near Franschhoek, I knew the conditions would allow me to use flash to underexpose the background – if I could just get close enough to
a sunbird… When this little one rested for a split second on a dew-drenched pincushion protea close to me, I knew it was my lucky day.
The flash provided a nice catchlight in its eye and brought out the
metallic-emerald sheen.
By Gideon Malherbe, Paarl
Canon EOS 7D MkII, Canon EF 400mm
f/2.8L, ISO 400, f/4, 1/500 sec