Rhino in the Ngorogoro Crater

[Gil Aegerter]

It's been 10 years, which is hard to believe, but in the middle of turmoil at NBC News, I took a long-planned vacation, got fired while in flight, then rehired when I landed in Dubai! Then it was on to Dar es Salaam to visit friends and family and see some of Tanzania. My wife and I and a driver/guide (who was just fantastic) drove into the Ndarakwai ranch and then to the Ngorogoro Crater, where we passed these two fine folks, who constituted 10 percent of all the black rhino in the park.

Nikon D600, Nikkor 300mm f4.5 AIS ED-IF.

[Fons Baerken]

This looks pretty close!

[armando_m]

Awesome photography

[Ashlandish]

Just wonderful, the image and the experience (friends, family, Tanzania, great driver, rhinos—not the tulmult of firing/rehiring).

[Øivind Tøien]

Very nice and peaceful setting with grazing rhinos, zebras, and perhaps flamingos at the lake in the background?

[Hugh_3170]

+1 from me.

I really like this image Gil.  Glad that you encountered rhinos & wildflowers and that you did not strike any hippos - they have a gruesome reputation.

Very nice and peaceful setting with grazing rhinos, zebras, and perhaps flamingos at the lake in the background?

[Thomas Stellwag]

this is an extraordinary good animal shot and a very well composed picture 

[Ann]

I am so glad that you were able to see and to take this great photograph of Black Rhinos because there are very few of these animals left alive in the wild.

Black Rhinos mostly forage from leaves on shrubs and bushes as opposed to the much more numerous and peaceful White (actually "wide-mouthed") Rhinos which graze on grasses.

Black Rhinos are more inclined to charge a perceived enemy so it is fortunate that these two did not perceive you as "enemy".

[Gil Aegerter]

Thank you for the comments. It was quite a moment, especially with the sea of flamingoes in the background.

[John Geerts]

this is an extraordinary good animal shot and a very well composed picture

Agree,  beautiful !!

[pluton]

A striking shot that I've come back to several times.