Rhino Approach

It's raining steadily again so I figured it was time to go back and play with some of my shots from my Birthday trip to Wildlife Safari. They warn you that as you drive through the park, if the rhinos look at you intensely to leave quickly. I guess sometimes they come through the fence. Yikes. He was pretty close and he was looking directly at us but I had to get pictures.
Thanks for your visits, comments, suggestions, favs

[carol white]

A super capture.Fav😊

[Mags]

Fantastic capture and added texture!

[Kate]

Lovely composition. Glad you didn't get charged by the rhino.

[bkb in the city]

Great capture

[KV]

Gorgeous creature, great photo, and lovely edit.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

super!

[Joan Robillard]

Wonderful

[Margaret Brown]

Brilliant, fav

[Frances Tackaberry]

Looks like a painting! Lovely!

[Cathy]

Terrific!

[Shepherdman's Wife]

Lovely texture used. You were brave, but that's the sort of thing I would do!

[LManning (Laura)]

Beautiful texture and composition. I love that you caught the detail in the grasses in front of his legs.

[Corinne C]

Wonderfully captured and processed!

[Esther Rosenberg]

Awesome shot, fantastic editing

[Lou Ann]

Really great image. Yes his stare looks serious!

[Yolanda]

Great pic

[Jean]

wow! That's a fabulous capture. And he looks big and powerful. Glad he did not charge you. Lovely processing

[Nada]

Wow

[sarah]

Oh this is wonderful- what an experience this must have been and the perfect use of textures

[KWind]

Wonderful!!

[Benno]

impressive encounter - nice processing

[sheri]

Love the watercolor effect.

[Daryl O'Hare]

Must have been very interesting!

[Felix Mantia M.]

I like it, light, placement, color, negative space, and the info about the rhino when it looks at you, all on point.

[Rosie Kerr]

Like a beautiful painting!!

[Allison Maltese]

A beautiful result. I like the softness of the background with that powerful animal.

[*lynn]

such a great animal and capture

[Rick]

Super capture and edit.

[PhylM-S]

Super! His eyes don’t give an indication of aggression from what I see here but wise to heed warnings. You never know.

[Milanie]

I love your processing onthis one. First him prefection

[Shutterbug]

Beautiful shot on that background.

[aikiuser (jenn)]

I guess it's always best to listen to those warnings, but look how sweet it is! Beautiful image, I really like your processing once again

[Diana]

A wonderful capture and fabulous texture.

[Elizabeth]

Nice edit. I'll bet you're glad there was a fence.

[haskar]

Great shot and edit.

[Wylie]

lovely shot and texture

[Leslie]

so glad he didn't charge now that would have been a different picture

[Judith Johnson]

Wow, great shot and armosphere.

[Taffy]

Wow -- this is terrific! Did you rework the background?

[Jane Pittenger]

@taffy I’m not sure what you mean...I added about 3 textures with different opacities and blend modes and then masked them out with low opacity brush around the feet and legs so it wouldn’t look as if he was floating

[Taffy]

@jgpittenger exactly what I was asking. It looks great.