Cheetah - Book Cover Shot "Survival"

Book Cover Shot... This is a finished copy of the cover of my new book, SURVIVAL ... I hope you like it!! This is a "print on demand" type book, produced by Blurb. I  have it online for purchase, the link to order your copy is below! It is available in hardcover and soft cover, with page quality options.
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Click on the above image twice to see the large size!

The images are full page size, with very little text.. a true
"picture book". We now have text info below, telling the
story, and all the tech details of each image. Each image
will be available for a print, minimum
16 x 24" in size., limited editions., 100 copies each.

I have changed my plan for these images and decided
to publish them on the web.


This is a landscape style book, 10 x 8.5", 40 pages.

For online orders, this is the pricing...


Soft cover  $36.69 + tax and shipping

Hardcover with Dust Jacket   
$48.19 + tax and shipping

Hardcover with Image Wrap   
$50.49 + tax and shipping


The lustre paper option has now been included 
the Blurb pricing.  A few dollars more, but the 
quality is excellent.

To order this book online, please click here!
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For local people and for people who want the 
book signed, you can order the book directly
through me, I will pay the taxes, 
shipping, etc, and have the book sent 
to my home. You can pick it up here, or, I can
send it to your home via Canada Post.
These prices below does not include forward 
shipping.


Soft cover  $41.00
Hardcover with Dust Jacket  $53.00
Hardcover with Image Wrap $58.00

The above prices include the upgrade to Lustre Paper.


Payments may be made by cheque, email 
transfer or cash. Paypal, and credit cards are 
accepted with a 7% surcharge.


Over the next week or two, I will be adding 
details (notes below) that cover the "event" of each 
shot in the book... the species, camera 
data, how it happened, location, anything 
that I can describe to help my customers 
understand what happened while I was shooting.


I didn't want to do the text in the book, as the 
page size is small and I want the book to be
more about the image, rather 
then the story behind the scene.

Thanks for looking, if you have any 
questions, feel free to email me here...

ray@raymondbarlow.com


take good care
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Survival Image Details!

 Below is a short review in text only to 
let everyone know about the images in the book, 
camera settings, species, locations, etc.

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Back cover insert ( hard cover dust jacket only)
Group shot of my tour guests, and our drivers. 
Africa group
Arusha National Park 
1/250s f/7.1 at 31.0mm iso200

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Back Cover Image

2 Giraffe Scenic
Lake Manyara National Park 
1/1250s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso200

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Front Cover Image
Cheetah is Curious! 
Serengeti National Park

1/640s f/4.0 at 200.0mm iso200

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Front cover insert ( hard cover dust jacket only)
Dragonfly in flight

Arusha National Park

1/500s f/6.3 at 400.0mm iso250

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Page 1 Image  (Introduction page)
 Black-winged Stilt 
Arusha National Park
 1/500s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso250

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Page 2 Image (thank you page and book details text)

Little Bee-eater
Lake Manyara National Park 
1/320s f/6.3 at 400.0mm iso250

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Page 3 Image  (copyright page)

Family Portrait

Restaurant shot taken during Daisy's Birthday Party!

Canon Point and Shoot! 

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Page 4 Image 
Bat-eared Fox
Serengeti National Park

1/2500s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso200

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Page 5 Image 
Grey-headed Kingfisher

Lake Manyara National Park 
1/160s f/7.1 at 550.0mm iso250

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Page 6 Image

Caracal Hunting

Serengeti National Park 
1/160s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso320

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Page 7 Image

  Cheetah on the Prowl

Serengeti National Park 
1/1250s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso200 

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Page 8 Image 

Spotted Hyena

Serengeti National Park
1/400s f/4.0 at 270.0mm iso250

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Page 9 Image

Black-and-white Colobus 

Arusha National Park

1/250s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso400 

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Page 10 Image 

Ruppell's Griffon Vulture  

Serengeti National Park

1/2000s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso200 

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Page 11 Image 

African Giraffe Family 

Serengeti National Park

1/400s f/4.0 at 240.0mm iso250 

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Page 12 Image 

Infant Blue Monkey  

Arusha National Park

1/100s f/4.0 at 270.0mm iso200 

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Page 13 Image

Black Rhinoceros 

Ngorongoro Crater Floor

1/640s f/7.1 at 550.0mm iso200 

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Page 14 Image

Vervet Monkey Family

Arusha National Park

1/200s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso200 

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Page 15 Image 

African Elephant

Serengeti National Park

1/2500s f/2.8 at 92.0mm iso200

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Page 16 Image

Leopard  

Serengeti National Park

1/200s f/5.0 at 330.0mm iso200 

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Page 17 Image 

African Wildebeest

Ngorongoro Crater Floor

1/2000s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso250 

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Page 18 Image

African Giraffe 

Arusha National Park

1/500s f/4.0 at 135.0mm iso250

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Page 19 Image

Young Male Elephants Sparing

Serengeti National Park

1/60s f/7.1 at 200.0mm iso320

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Page 20 Image
Vultures on a Zebra Kill

Serengeti National Park

1/1600s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso200

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Page 21 Image

African Lion (male)

Ngorongoro Crater Floor  

1/40s f/2.8 at 116.0mm iso250

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Page 22 Image
African / Cape Buffalo 

Serengeti National Park

1/3200s f/2.8 at 200.0mm iso200

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Page 23 Image

Marabou Stork

  Serengeti National Park  

1/1600s f/4.0 at 200.0mm iso250

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Page 24 Image

African Wildebeest on the Run

Serengeti National Park

1/500s f/10.0 at 200.0mm iso250

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Page 25 Image

Lion Cub

Serengeti National Park

1/160s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso200

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Page 26 Image

Red-necked Spurfowl 

Serengeti National Park  

1/800s f/5.6 at 550.0mm iso200

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Page 27 Image
Flamingos
Serengeti National Park
1/6400s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso320
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Page 28 Image
African Giraffe 

Arusha National Park

1/160s f/5.0 at 400.0mm iso320

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Page 29 Image

Cheetah with Cubs

Serengeti National Park

1/400s f/9.0 at 290.0mm iso200

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Page 30 Image

African Lions (females)

Serengeti National Park 

1/640s f/8.0 at 400.0mm iso200

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Page 31 Image

East African Crowned Crane

Ngorongoro Crater Floor

1/250s f/5.6 at 400.0mm iso200

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Page 32 Image

Lesser Striped Swallow

Lake Manyara National Park

1/320s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso320

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Page 33 Image

Zebra

Arusha National Park

1/800s f/7.1 at 400.0mm iso250

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Page 34 Image

Little Bee-eater

Lake Manyara National Park

1/500s f/5.6 at 400.0mm iso200

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Page 35 Image

African Elephant
Serengeti National Park

1/60s f/7.1 at 200.0mm iso32o

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Page 36 Image

Wildebeest Migration

Serengeti National Park

1/400s f/10.0 at 120.0mm iso250

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Page 37 Image

Long-crested Eagle
Serengeti National Park
1/1250s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso250

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Page 38 Image

Cheetah Stretching

Serengeti National Park

1/60s f/4.0 at 300.0mm iso320

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Page 39 Image

African Elephant

Serengeti National Park

1/250s f/8.0 at 112.0mm iso200

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End of Book!

I plan to write more details about each image to help 
tell the story of the shot, and more about the environment
surrounding us during this tour.
so.....

more details coming soon

  

My Q + A session with my friend, Artist Barb Kopeschny

Barb Kopeschny is a superb artist from Washego, Ontario., she has been to a few of my workshops, and we are good friends.  I enjoy her work immensely, and I am sure you will too... please have a look at her fantastic website here... Click!

BK: Isn't she beautiful! 

she is sooooooooooooooooooo beautiful.

BK: So how many yards away from her were you?...

About 25 yards, shorter than the length of your driveway.

 BK:  What was the average temperature?....

The hottest it got was about 82 F, high noon ... the sun was straight up., got a nice tan!  some places we stayed had heating, but no Air Conditioning!


BK: Did you feel safe or vulnerable?

Over all, Tanzania is safer, more pleasant, more secure, then you can imagine ., these people are very special.


 BK:  What time of day was this shot taken? ….

We saw her at the crack of dawn, about 1/2 km from our luxury tents., and followed her for about 2 hours, around 800 frames, our driver Nickey knew exactly how far we should be away from cheetahs, to allow her to go about her business.


BK: Was there any risk to her with poachers etc.?

Everything is now under control there, very little hunting, almost no poaching; all animals are on the rebound... Tanzania is dealing well with these issues, I was very impressed.


BK:  How many people were around you at the time?

Just our safari truck with 3 of us in there, and my other guests truck, with only 2 people.  I had 5 signed up, so there would have been 6 of us, but one guy had a family emergency, so we were 3 and 2., tons of room in there for all kinds of gear, water, food, etc... we were even charging batteries as we went along, and uploading to laptops, and doing back up.

BK:  Were you able to speak out loud amongst each other while photographing, or were you whispering or were you all completely quiet? …..

Talking voices, these cheetahs are very secure and unafraid of humans... also, the lions were the same... they were right on the road!!, so close we needed to back away.

BK: Amazing!  Pretty awesome eh? …..

You could not imagine how awesome this trip was, dream come true... times 10!!!

 I want to live there, bad!

BK: Did you find the week went by quickly?

Yes!.. I was gone for almost 2 weeks in total, and I did miss my family... while driving around I was wishing Daisy and Maria were there to enjoy the sights.

BK:  Your "luxury" tents, were they safe?

Very safe, Nas has 10 tents there, each tent is worth over $8,000.00 USD., they are as big as a hotel room!

BK:  Did the tents have washrooms or were they nearby? ……

Each tent has its own bathroom, and shower.

BK:  How was the food and was water drinkable or did you need bottled water?.....

Superb, bottle water everywhere, beer and drinks at the camp too!

BK:  Any McDonald's or fast foods nearby? ……

Only in my dreams... Our tour had only three nights at the camp, the rest of the time we were at fine lodges, and hotels, some really amazing accommodations.. My partner Nas wanted me to see it all.

BK: When not on the road in the truck, what did you do back at the luxury tents?

We left the camp / lodges at 6-7 am, Safari breakfast with the wildebeests’, shooting all day, back for lunch around 2pm, shower, then on the trail at 4 pm till dark., then dinner, and sleep.  I was the only one who got a mosquito bite!!

BK: After a day of shooting, dinner, socializing, what time were you able to get to sleep? ….

Between 8-9 pm, early nights... as we were always up so early in the morning.

BK:  Did you share tents or were they all to yourself? ……

My buddy from Toronto George Campbell shared rooms with me.

BK:  Did you forget to pack anything that you really needed? 

No, I had it all covered, brought my tripod, should have left it at home.. no need, I would have packed my laptop in my carry-on ... next time., as there was not much to do between flights in Amsterdam Airport.


BK: Too many questions, I know.  But I'm re- living your trip through your answers.  ;)

Some of your answers were comical..."only in my dreams" but was I amazed at learning that you ate well, had fine lodges & hotels and great accommodations.  The" luxury tents" you talked about earlier emails,  I thought you were perhaps joking as I imagined some thin, gauzy, pup tents.  I am really impressed.  Not at all what I imagined Africa adventure to be like.  Yet all the wildlife at your dispense, with technical accommodations on board for your laptops etc., and backups.  You are practically guaranteed good shots and no worries of being out for the day without backing up your memory cards.  My gosh, it doesn't get better than that! …..

Great trip of a lifetime! 

for sure!

Not sure if I told you this... Feb 18th was a special day, 2,400 shots, culled down to 1,200... My best day of keepers ever, culled down to 70 for edit, again a record number of edits, this day was really something.

I have 5 more days to sort out, and then the top 40 for the book to separate, and then I start preparing the book, should be interesting.

BK: That was a good day for sure!  Does that reflect on being more careful or selective about shots you take? …..


Awesome!

A good day like this reflects on the number of species I encounter, and the number of scenes I capture with each species., in Newfoundland, we shot gannets for a morning and afternoon shoot... about 10 hours in total... 3,200 shots, culled down to about 520 keepers, culled down to about 6 edited shots... you can see the difference., basically 2 species, and 5-6 scenes.

Lots of work!

Special thanks to Barb... I had no intention of posting this email string, but once we were done, I thought it would be a cool idea.

A few more from Tanzania

I am still sorting images one week after getting home from hosting this awesome tour.  February 18th was an amazing day... 2,400 shots, 1,200 keepers, 70 files to edit., at least 10 of
these files will be prepared for the next book... Survival!

Here are a few recent frames,  lots more to come!

Thanks for looking... please click on the images for full size!

Please email me for more info on the upcoming tours... ray@raymondbarlow.com