February's best photos

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GEORGE NEWS - The George Camera Club's February winners have been announced and they cover an interesting variety of topics beautifully captured.

Theme winner (domesticated animals) : Perfect Partnership by Lorraine Blackwell

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"The image was shot at the Lipizzaner Centre in Kyalami, Johannesburg. The interior of the barn arena is quite dark with very bright light coming through the windows on either side, so to get the image sharp, I had to push up the ISO, which made the images quite grainy.

"I also had to balance shutter speed with depth of field to get sharp images to keep most of the handler's face in focus while blurring the background.

"To compensate for the grainy image, I did a lot of post processing using Adobe Lightroom and then a monochrome conversion using Nik software.

Camera: Nikon D5500 with a Sigma 50 - 150mm lens

Camera settings: 1/640, f/4.0, ISO 4 000

Senior nature winner: Vlieënde by deur Verinda Bosch

Ek het een laatmiddag 'n swerm bye by onkruidplantjies langs die pad gesien en gestop.

Ek het probeer om 'n by af te neem terwyl hy vlieg. Die sirkels wat die by se vinnig bewegende vlerkies gemaak het, is skaars sigbaar maar maak die foto baie interessant.

Kamera: Nikon D7100 met 'n 70-300mm lens.

Kamera-instellings: 1/500s, f4.5, ISO 800

Junior nature winner: Marabou storks settling by Pieter Viljoen

The photo was taken in April 2017 between Satara and N'wanetsi (Road S100) in the Kruger National Park.

It was at the end of a long and hot day when I saw this breathtaking scene.

The marabous were just settling in for the night and I had to shoot quickly as the light was deteriorating fast.

Camera: Canon EOS 60D with Canon 18-135mm lens

Camera settings: 1/25, f29, ISO 100

Senior open winner: Another power failure by Schalk Engelbrecht

The photo was taken inside the toll house in the Montagu pass, an ideal setting for this old-style photo.

I used natural window light and added candlelight. The model is Bianka Hartenstein.

Camera: Fujifilm XT2, ISO 1600

Junior open winner: Sea slug hiding by Annamie van Rensburg

It was a beautiful late afternoon at Boggomsbaai beach when this little boy was so intrigued by a sea slug, totally unaware of anything else around him.