Watched the first episode of Africa tonight, absolutely stunning.
 
Worth the licence fee on its own.
 
 

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mike_mccue


Can't wait to see it.

:-)

 
Mike, apart from Attenborough's usual wonderful narrative, the photography is simply stunning.
 
They're even using a 'starlight' movie camera to capture some of the footage.
 
Here's a still showing the sort of images it can captures in the middle of the night:
 

 
 
There are some more stills HERE if you want to check them out, and the trailer for the series is on Youtube HERE.
 
 

SteveStrummerUK

mike_mccue


Can't wait to see it.

:-)

 
Mike, apart from Attenborough's usual wonderful narrative, the photography is simply stunning.
 
They're even using a 'starlight' movie camera to capture some of the footage.
 
Here's a still showing the sort of images it can captures in the middle of the night:
 

 
 
There are some more stills HERE if you want to check them out, and the trailer for the series is on Youtube HERE.
 
 

Gosh, that would have been a nice pic if your dog didn't get into the scene there Steve.

Steve's dog, Fluffy?  

Do we get it in the states?

It's a beautiful looking show that's for sure. I'm pretty certain no-one has ever seen 2 giraffes fighting before, that was an incredible sequence.

I will watch for it. I like such shows as ong as they are not too heavy on controversy. If they stick with nature and what is happening now and the filming is stellar (as I assume this is)... there isn't much better....

Thanks for the heads up, I had not heard about this. I will look it up now.
edit> NICE going, your OP here is the second listing on Google. I copy/pasted your thread title sans the "wow". You are on page three of the Google search if I remove "6-part". Cool!

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jamesg1213


It's a beautiful looking show that's for sure. I'm pretty certain no-one has ever seen 2 giraffes fighting before, that was an incredible sequence.

I saw a Rhino make a couple of hundred people scatter very quickly at the San Diego Zoo.
I didn't know they could spin their tail like that....talk about the sh$t hitting the fan!

Here you go Daryl......thinking of you mate.
 

A male gelada, unique to the Ethiopian highlands and also known as a bleeding heart baboon. The bright red bleeding heart markings of the male indicates virility and attracts females whilst warning off rivals
 

Hanging tens of metres in the air, a young female chimp in the Congo pounds on the nest of stingless bees in her quest for honey, one of the most complicated forms of tool use ever filmed among the great apes of Africa
 
An armoured ground cricket, native of the Kalahari, prepares to defend itself by squirting its own blood through joints in its armour