African Safari 2007

We had wanted to go to Africa for a long time and we were not disappointed. We had a fantastic time and saw so many different animals and landscapes. Dan and Assana were, once again, great traveling companions. We all giggled and laughed all the time. The four of us are quite sure we'll be headed back to Africa some time in the not too distant future!

"I hadn't heard about Jack's Camp until we showed up here" - Rick
"Where are you all headed next?" "Uh...." - all of us
"Now I'm too lazy to even look at my picture books!" - Rick
"She could, but then she'd look like a hermit crab." - Rick
"The baby impalas are spread around like Easter eggs" - Rick
"The secretary bird will write that down." - Rick
"Phonetic mathematics - it has clicks and pops" - Randy
"The baboons will not eat you. Huh, huh, huh!" - Dowdy

Two days before we left for the trip, a pair of brand new Nikon D300s arrived. We were nervous about taking brand new equipment on such a remote trip, but definitely glad we did. They performed wonderfully, rendering images that were incredibly true to life in almost any condition. After a bit of setup on the cameras before we left, we shot the vast majority of the images (over 5600) handheld, on automatic. It was really amazing!

Photography - one Nikon D300 with Nikon 18-200 VR lens, one Nikon D300 with Nikon 80-400 VR lens, two 16GB Sandisk CF memory cards.
Video - Panasonic SD5 High Definition camcorder, three 8GB SD memory cards.
Computer - 17" MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM and a 250GB hard drive. One 300GB Fujitsu external backup drive. Aperture and iMovie were used for all of the photography, video and web journal work.