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Oct 5 2026 | By: Jim Zuckerman Photography

I photographed this hippo at sunset at Lake Manyara, Tanzania. It was one of those situations where all the elements you want for impactful pictures came together -- the light, the action, and the right focal length. More people in Africa die from hippos than any other animal except mosquitoes. That's remarkable considering these huge animals are herbivores, but people will do laundry in the rivers, or go fishing, or swimming, and they don't know a hippo is submerged and nearby. I used a 500mm focal length for this shot, and the settings were 1/400, f/8, and 640 ISO.

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