WINNING PHOTO
STU BOWIE
IG: @stubowie
Canon EOS 1D Mark IV
Canon 100 - 400 mm lens
STU WRITES: Photographers will know that you can't beat that special morning or late-afternoon light. On this particular morning, I was at Rietvlei Nature Reserve near Pretoria and managed to capture a red hartebeest cow with her calf at her side. You can generally tell male and female hartebeest apart because the females have thinner horns than the males.
I liked the similar poses of the two antelope, and how the mom's eye is almost "touching" the horn of the calf. My settings: shutter speed 1/1 600, aperture f8, ISO 140.
TOAST SAYS: This photo made me do a double take. Often, having one animal in front of another makes for a weirdlooking picture because our eye prefers to see animals standing separate from each other - it's easier to figure out what we're looking at that way.
But red hartebeest are such distinctive-looking antelope and there's no doubt as to what we're dealing with here. Stu's photo is special because we can see the clear differences between an adult and juvenile, all in one frame. How amazing to compare the
