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Optical illusion: Pygmy giraffes discovered on the Mara :)

But I wouldn't stick my neck out to vouch for it . . .

 

No Photoshop or other trick was used here. Just pure nature working in its wonderful ways. The giraffes are the same full-sized young males seen in another image of mine, "Summit meeting on the plain."

 

The slightly mysterious static openness of this image somehow reminds me of Antonioni's "L'avventura" . . . an unspoken question hangs in the air. The figures seem to be waiting, or looking for something.

 

My friend Sarah Packham says they must be looking for food,

but that's a very tall order because they eat leaves, and trees are so bloody obvious even to English horsewomen on the savannah :)

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Uploaded on November 27, 2018
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