Storm Over the Okavango River Delta Photo

Photographer’s Note

This year the rain season took much longer then usual and in the Northern Botswana and Zambia the daily precipitation reached up to 250 mm even in the end of January. It was fascinating to watch during a 300km drive from Nata to Maun how such a storm builds up from small cumuli clouds to a real storm system of about 20 km in diameter. Later then from a small Cessna we saw this beautiful storm over the Okavango Delta. This beautifully meandering channel is called the Takhle River and creates the Western boudery of the Okavango Delta.

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jpinkham, angela926, flashpoint, jmcl, Deepforest, UlfE, maglex, cyborg83, jaywalker, sujit, McRato, adores, COSTANTINO, Hellas, pticaruh, patdeph, CLODO has marked this note useful

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lolo38 (49) 2008-02-03 6:44

beautifull, great shoot. thank you

davide (1144) 2008-02-03 6:46

One of the best photo never seen! Great!
Davide

jpinkham (848) 2008-02-03 7:03

Michael, this is enchanting. You have so many things to draw us in – the vibrant green of the earth beneath, the magnificent line and curve of the waterway, the dark hovering storm clouds. Your choice of point of view and your composition are both excellent.

Well done!
Jim

angela926 (1882) 2008-02-03 7:08

Hello Michael,
I love the colors and contrast, very good composition and point of view,good sharpness and clarity, beautiful vivid colors. well done!
Angela

PapPa74 (121) 2008-02-03 7:09

Great capture!! Superb!

cyborg83 (3774) 2008-02-03 7:10

Hello Michael,
fabulous photo!! Fantastic colors, great POV and amazing scenery!!! TFS

mirarer (4359) 2008-02-03 7:11

Hi Michael,
Great landscape, beautiful colors and nice compo.
Regards,
Mirari

maglex (1582) 2008-02-03 7:17

Hi Michael, thanks for sharing this photograph! We don't see much from this area in TE. Great vivid colors, fantastic!

Alex

flashpoint (3512) 2008-02-03 7:44

hello Michael,
a visual fantastic rich of colors and lines, the natural graphic art of the creeks of the river in the middle to the forest, the sky
furrow from the loaded clouds of rain. ..great

greetings sERGIO

Tweety (3376) 2008-02-03 7:45

Bonjour Michael
Très belle photo ! Un cadrage excellent avec une rivière qui guide notre regard jusqu'à l'orage Bravo !

Mateja (413) 2008-02-03 7:49

Hi,
beautiful photo, the presentation of this delta is amazing with the contrast only using the contrast beetwen green / blue.
Great photo!
Mateja

ayansadhu (1499) 2008-02-03 7:54

This is a fantastic image but I think in a landscape shot like this the vision gets restricted for the choice of vertical canvas which I think can be overcome by choosing a horizontal canvas which I have tried in PP; see if it is useful or not with a :)

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jmcl (13865) 2008-02-03 7:54

hi Michael,

Wonderfully composed depth .. stunning and beautiful color and light .. the sky is so smooth and noise free .. I am always in awe of capturing such an infinite feeling in a vertical frame .. tremendous image.

take care,

John

Zolive (1654) 2008-02-03 8:02

Hi Michael
what a wonderful picture of this fantastic place. Colors are splendid and the river like a long snake is amazing. Congratulations.
Olivier

smarcell (14327) 2008-02-03 9:12

A great composition. Very eye catching and minimalistic.
Excellent.
Stefano

Deepforest (8813) 2008-02-03 11:41

Hi Michael,
fantastic capture, good composition and nice colours. Amazing shot!
Best regards,
Andrzej

jmdias (19327) 2008-02-03 11:47

michael
this image is so colorful that we can think it isn't real, it is a fauve painting. Good solors, pov, compo and everything

jorge

siislam (290) 2008-02-03 15:15

WOW! Amazing picture, I love the bright green colour with stormy blue sky, excellent contrast. Well Done.
Regards
Syed

sevy (13500) 2008-02-04 5:05

Hello,

Very impressive landscape. It is very different of what it looks like last July.
I like a lot the play of the colors and the river flowing like a snake in this green area.

Yves.

UlfE (8992) 2008-02-04 11:19

Hi Michael,

Marvelous shot and amazing colours. Minimalistisc but very, very fascinating to look at. One of your best pictures. Congratulations!

Cheers,

Ulf

mondele (711) 2008-02-04 12:21

Bonsoir Michael,
Magnifique image d'une des plus belle région d'Afrique.
Philippe

jaywalker (12190) 2008-02-08 8:44

Hi Michael, What a wonderful aerial view of this beautiful area, the strong yellows are superb, that sky looks very hominess, however the contrast in light is brilliant, a very lovely photo, kind regards Wilson.

sujit (278) 2008-02-09 8:49

Lovely shot!!

keribar (42748) 2008-02-10 22:29

Hello Michael,
I heard so much about this Okawongo river,
but it is difficult for me to organize a trip to Bostwana..
Anyway, your picture is for me the best that one could expect from a plane. The big "S" is really outstanding. I find the clouds too saturated but this is a personal opinion.
I wish you an excellent week - Izzet

McRato (86) 2008-02-14 0:20

Fascinating picture. Happy to see that there are still untoutch places on earth. Thank you for taking this picture and sharing it.
Very good colours and excellent POV. I´m a geography student (climatology) and the cloud formation caught my attention.

Very good.

McRato

deffra (89) 2008-02-22 0:20 [Comment]

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adores (15567) 2008-03-26 18:04

Hi Michael!
Very good shot! Good composition and perfect colours, I like the way the yellow constrasts with the dark sky. You placed the horizon very well. Amazing place

velocista (881) 2008-03-28 11:39

olá,
simply beautiful!!!!
pedro

COSTANTINO (22747) 2008-04-01 1:24

Hi Michael,
great idea and beautiful vertical framing for this photo.
I liked very much your photo collections. Well done.
Bravo,
Costantino

jontevanessen (165) 2008-05-01 4:32

Amazing photo!
I really love the yellow ground, contrasted by the dark water reflecting the clouds. Also interesting is the greenish line on the horizon.
Tfs!
Jonte

Hellas (5125) 2008-05-29 0:25

Hi Michael,
what a stunning view is this?
The meandering channel is like a snake! The Pov is excellent and the colours vivid and I would say fantastic! The bright light on the earth contrasts the cloudy sky so much!
It was very kind of you to share this wonderful image with all of us. Thank you very much!

Warm regards,
Athanasios.

pticaruh (276) 2008-09-03 10:47

Simply fascinating!!! Simple composition, yet so powerful nad with greqt intense colours. Good saturation. The reflection of the storm in the winding river, going in the distant, these electric-green plants... All is good!

Man, you really have seen a lot of places...

Regards,

Asparuh

photographer123 (5755) 2009-01-29 7:34

hi...
what a shot..nothing more to say...subir

dragonetti (239) 2009-04-03 13:11

Hi Michael,

Splendid colours with a good composition whith those curves. This contrast between the blue and yellow-green is fantastic. One of my favorites now.

TFS,
Didier

Manamo (3474) 2009-04-14 7:28

Hello Michael,
this is a masterfully composed image. At first, the ws made me thing that this would look good horizontal...but after giving it some thought, the river is too important in the compo and you gotta go with the format that follows its shape.
I love the reflection in the water, but I think you pushed the colors in the sky a little bit too much for my taste.
This place looks so wild and beautiful!
Marc

Rafer (4313) 2009-06-02 22:54

Maravillosos colores y formas, sobresaliente...saludos

patdeph (17918) 2009-06-17 11:49

hello Michaël
Wooooowwww!Great!The vibrant green,the contrast with dark cloudy sky,the curves of the river,everything is splendid!
Regards
Pascale

sacimar (7399) 2009-07-11 12:58

Hello Michael,

wow! this is a great picture, the colours are superb, I like the contrast between the blue sky and the green ground, excellent composition!

Best regards

Sergio

ahmkaplan (96) 2009-07-12 12:06

Very good photo with yellowish green and tones of blue interwoven. The blue water reaches the light blue of the sky and then the blue in the sky first darkens and folloeingly gets light again. And the curves of the water line gives quite a soft view to the photo.Congratulations.

blueaquan (32) 2009-08-09 12:56

Ah! Okavango, the largest inland Delta created by the Okavango River which without being able to reach the Ocean, empties itself into the Kalahari and creates what we see here with one among the largest concentration of African Wildlife...

I've no words to describe this beauty, truly only an aerial photograph like this can do justice to this landscape.

Thanks for sharing...

Cheers, Blue

CLODO (4260) 2009-08-10 1:35

Hi Michael,
vibrant picture dedicated to the contrast blue/yellow, and with the river snake at the bottom really eye catching
Cheers
CLODO

Photo Information

Copyright: Michael Trezzi (MichaelTrezzi) (3170)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-01-23
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon 5D, 24-105 f4 L IS USM
Exposure: f/9.0, 1/500 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): CLODO's selection, TRIPLE WOW !!!, ***IF SUBIR CAN DO LIKE THIS.....*** [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-02-03 6:41
Favorites: 14 [view]