Giraffe bull, Hwange, Zimbabwe

looks pretty much perfect to me. what a place; what a vista! and wow, does that look sharp!

This shot really convey's the giraffe's height which counter-intuitively might have been lost to an extent if a longer focus lens had been usedWhat was the lens if I may ask?

Thanks for your comments. I didnt't have a telephoto for that camera. The longest lens I had was a 135 mm Macro, if I remember correctly, which was probably the lens I used. Most of the images I brought back from that trip were taken with a 55mm.

Thanks I had thought that it might have been the standard 75mm or slightly shorter such as the 55mm given the field of vision and my assumption( probably wrong) as to how close you were.

I must have been about 40 meters from the animal to get those proportions. I took some images last month with a 55 mm, with the nearest animal about 8 meters from the camera. It looks quite different, since perspective gives an animal with these proportions a very obvious distortion. I hope to be posting them within the next weeks.

Thanks for the reply and this is useful information If this was 40 metres and it was only a 135 it has a much bigger magnification than I had thought a 135 would give. I have a 645 myself but only the 75 and 45 lenses. It would seem that a 200mm which is big but still manageable would be fine for most wild-life unless the animal was so dangerous that 40 metres was not safe