Mixed bag from Tanzania

[KevinA]

Beginning to get to the end of my trip to Tanzania and Zanzibar. For interest, from Wikipedia "The name "Tanzania" was created as a clipped compound of the names of the two states that unified to create the country: Tanganyika and Zanzibar. It consists of the first three letters of the names of the two states ("Tan" and "Zan") and the suffix, "ia" to form Tanzania."

Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumenifer

Impala, Aepyceros melampus

White-fronted Bee-eater, Merops bullockoides

African Openbill Stork, Anastomus lamelligerus

 

[AlanLichty]

Wow - a fun grab bag of images. I love the storks in the tree in the last shot and the neat markings on the Bee-eater.

 

[Trent Watts]

Who picked the colours for that Bee-eater? Pantone better take note!
Such wonderful images Kevin .. they give me a lot of joy.

 

[JimFox]

Thanks for the history on the name Kevin, I do recall the country of Zanzibar, it had such an exotic feel to it. So that's what happened to it.

And these are some great photos for sure. That's a super cool looking stork, at first glance I thought it was a kind of weird looking vulture, and was surprised that was a stork. I also like #4. Maybe clone out those palm tree leaves poking in from the lower right to clean up that right edge? The image looks really great, and maybe that suggestion is too much of a nit. I do think that bit of leaves kind of helps balance the image too, so the image may not balance right without them there.

 

[KevinA]

Wow - a fun grab bag of images. I love the storks in the tree in the last shot and the neat markings on the Bee-eater.

Thank you Alan

Who picked the colours for that Bee-eater? Pantone better take note!
Such wonderful images Kevin .. they give me a lot of joy.

Thank you Trent

Thanks for the history on the name Kevin, I do recall the country of Zanzibar, it had such an exotic feel to it. So that's what happened to it.

And these are some great photos for sure. That's a super cool looking stork, at first glance I thought it was a kind of weird looking vulture, and was surprised that was a stork. I also like #4. Maybe clone out those palm tree leaves poking in from the lower right to clean up that right edge? The image looks really great, and maybe that suggestion is too much of a nit. I do think that bit of leaves kind of helps balance the image too, so the image may not balance right without them there.

Thank you Jim for looking and pointing out the palm leaves. Sometimes you can't see the obvious problems with an image until someone points them out. Here's an edited version

African Openbill Stork, Anastomus lamelligerus