Africa in Brazil Photo

Photographer’s Note

This photo was taken on a farm near Dourados (Mato Grosso do Sul state) in center-west of Brazil. These animals were brought from Africa to Brazil to criate a hunting farm (natural hunt is forbidden in Brazil).
This kind of farm has been criated in Brazil in last year, oferring pheasants, quails and sometimes this kind of "imported" animals on photo.
You pay for it. You say how many animals you want to hunt, the free them and you try to catch them. If you don't find or couldn't hit them, they are free.
This practice caused some troubles to Brazilian fauna, specially when they use "imported" animals that don't exist in Brazil.

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cessy (13647) 2006-02-02 9:12

very nice capture of these beautiful creatures
looks as if they were posing for you

leo61 (43336) 2006-02-02 11:55

Hi Nanau!
Great foto of these nice animals,I hope you don`t hunt them except with your camera.
Well done,
bye Leo

MIG13 (0) 2006-02-02 13:45

Olá, Leonardo. Parabéns pela bela foto: composição, cores e tema excelentes. Lamento apenas pela finalidade da importação desses animais... Saudações! Miguel.

Naherty (0) 2006-02-02 23:54

Olá, Leonardo,
Uma foto fantástica! Digna de figurar na National Geographic. Interessante ver esses animais no Brasil. Ótima nota. Parabéns. TFS
Naherty

donluicu (23925) 2006-02-03 10:35

Hi Leo
what is the name of those animals?
interesting note.

bye
loic

rico (501) 2006-02-03 15:56

Bacana a foto e o comentário. Eu não sabia da existência deste tipo de esporte no Brasil. Você usou um Flash de preenchimento, não é? Tem até um brilho no fucinho molhado do Cervo (se for um) da direita.

Um abraço do Rico.

zeca (20026) 2006-02-14 19:14

Oi primo! Legal este negócio! Não conhecia. Se sem caçar não se paga, é um bom lugar para fazer um safari fotográfico! A sua foto está ótima em cores e nitidez. Nice POV and DOF!
abraços,
Zeca
(tá sumido! cadê as fotos? sabe que vendi uma?)

lotis (132) 2006-03-03 15:49

I can't believe some people would want to kill these creatures. Can they be approached? They look sad though. They probably have an idea what fate awaits them. But the photo is really good.
Cheers
Louis

rabdelnoor (2973) 2006-03-11 10:00

Hi Leonardo,
Great capture of these beautiful animals. It's a shame they import such majestic animals to be killed. You got a fine shot and they look pretty interested in you. Great one.
Abraços
Ricardo

NellyD (1872) 2006-09-15 20:28

Hi Leonardo,

This is a very good picture of this beautiful animals.
You captured them in a lovely scenery also.
And thanks for your note, it's very interesting.
TFS

Greetings, Nel

dcawker (5667) 2006-09-16 10:06

Wow, fantastic moment captured here! Really well done! Regards, Doug