Tag: Elephant

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2016-06-03_Feel Good Friday

Any day is a good day for posting an elephant photo 🙂  Here’s one from the time we got stuck in the river we spent so long watching the ellies.

Happy Friday Everyone!

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2016-05-24: WPC Jubilant

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This pair of young elephants were such a joy to watch.  They spent time playing with sticks (the discarded one on the roadway had been proudly carried by the closer of the two for some time), tussling and chasing each other, and nibbling on the leaves and grasses.  

WPC: Jubilant

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2016-04-22: Feel Good Friday

It seems I could only stray from elephants for one Friday!  Have a great weekend everyone!

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A cheerful little elephant with a jaunty walk makes his way down the roadway towards us 🙂 Sabi Sands, May 2015
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2016-03-07: Monochrome Monday & WPC Muse

I decided to combine my usual Monochrome Monday with a WPC topic of the week: Muse.  What topic do I return to time and time again?  What subject inspires me?  What am I ALWAYS excited to photograph?

If you’ve read this blog for more than a week, you’ll know the answer, it’s easy:

Elephants 🙂

I’d happily spend a day, a week, a lifetime in the presence of elephants.  Photographing them of course, but more importantly just being in their presence, enjoying their rumbles and trumpeting, feeling the vibrations of their communications at levels we can’t hear, revealing in their beautiful, peaceful nature.

Here are a couple photos that popped out at me this time for editing and posting.

Enjoy, and have a wonderful week.

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A bull elephant grazing at breakfast time. The sun was at the perfect angle for a lovely shadow of his trunk on the ground behind him. Timbavati, May 2015
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The perfect fly swatter.
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Shade is in short supply in the Damaraland desert. A family of elephants take turns under the shade of a small tree. Damaraland Camp, April 2015

 

Note – this isn’t the current WPC topic of the week… not even close.  But when I was looking for the current one, this spoke one spoke to me.  Onto Harmony later in the week.

WPC Muse

 

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2016-03-03: world Wildlife Day

A few photos of my favourites, the elephants, on this World Wildlife Day.

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Peeking out from the safety of Mom’s legs.
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Pausing for nourishment in the hills of the Damaraland desert.
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Afternoon drinks break in the Sabi Sands.
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2016-01-26: WPC Optimistic

I am optimistic that all of these beautiful creatures will have the opportunity to live out their lives in the way nature intended, without the influence of poacher’s or trophy hunter’s bullets.  That is my hope, and if like minded people continue to join together, perhaps it will happen in my lifetime.

 

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This pangolin was definitely the most photographed animal on Londolozi that day. It was one of my safari dreams to see a pangolin. 
Londolozi, May 2015

 

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A leopard with one of her young, as they worked to reunite with the second cup (gratefully we were able to witness the reunion). 
Ngala Game Reserve, May 2015

 

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Part of an elephant parade on route to a waterhole for an early evening drink. 
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A rhino calf eyes us up while his Mom has a drink. 
Phinda Game Reserve, April 2015

 

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We were fortunate to spend time with this lioness with her pair of young cubs (one was lying flat behind Mom when I snapped this). 
Kalahari Desert, April 2015

 

WPC: Optimistic

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