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For the Macro Mondays theme “Holiday Bokeh”.
"""Happy Macro Monday everyone!!"""", says this little blue elephant ;-)
Taken Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park situated close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is one of the country's 20 national parks. It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. I spent four consecutive days within the park which provided an amazing variety of wildlife.
12.1.2020, Elephant Island, Antarctica
Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean. The island is situated 245 kilometres (152 miles) north-northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, 1,253 kilometres (779 miles) west-southwest of South Georgia, 935 kilometres (581 miles) south of the Falkland Islands, and 885 kilometres (550 miles) southeast of Cape Horn. It is within the Antarctic claims of Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom.
Endurance expedition:
The island was the desolate refuge of the British explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew in 1916 following the loss of their ship Endurance in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. The crew of 28 reached Cape Valentine on Elephant Island after months spent drifting on ice floes and a harrowing crossing of the open ocean in small lifeboats.[3] After camping at Cape Valentine for two nights, Shackleton and his crew moved 11 km (7 mi) west to a small, rocky spit at the terminus of a glacier, which offered better protection from rockfalls and from the sea, and which they called Point Wild.
Realizing that there was no chance of passive rescue, Shackleton decided to sail to South Georgia, where he knew there were several whaling stations. Shackleton sailed with Tom Crean, Frank Worsley, Harry "Chippy" McNish, Tim McCarthy, and John Vincent on an 1,300 km (800 mi) voyage in the open lifeboat James Caird beginning on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, and arriving at South Georgia 16 days later. His second-in-command, Frank Wild, was left in charge of the remaining party on Elephant Island, waiting for Shackleton's return with a rescue ship.[4]
There was much work for the stranded men. Because the island had no natural source of shelter, they constructed a shack and wind blocks from their remaining two lifeboats and pieces of canvas tents. Blubber lamps were used for lighting. They hunted for penguins and seals, neither of which were plentiful in autumn or winter. Shackleton instructed Wild to depart with the crew for Deception Island if he did not return to rescue them by the beginning of summer, but after four and a half months, on August 30, 1916, the artist George Marston spotted a ship. The ship, with Shackleton on board, was the tug Yelcho, from Punta Arenas, Chile, commanded by Luis Pardo, which rescued all the men who had set out on the original expedition.
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Elephants are sensitive fellow animals where if a baby complains, the entire family will rumble and go over to touch and caress it.
did you ever wonder why elephants are different colors? I is because of the color of the mud they roll in.
Tarangire National Park, Tanzania
An elephant having a dust bath (also called sand bathing), with the purpose of cleaning skin, and removing parasites.
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Elephant-style GEs, consisting of an ES44DC, an ET44C4, and a C44-9W lead a 93-car manifest west out of Denver. The three GEs up front are being helped by another two pushing on the tail end over an mile to the east.
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“By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair”
Persian Proverb
tribute to gregory colbert
Elephants Play-fighting.
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Mala Mala Game Reserve
South Africa
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With the water being low in the Sand River, elephants feed on the grasses in the middle of the river and then cross over to the other side to continue on their journey.
Elephant at Sunset.
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Africa Kenya Samburu Wildlife Elephants Mothers Babies Wild Tusks Ears Blue Heads Trunk Sky Outdoors
I took the H-Alpha and Oxygen-III data back in July and then I forgot about it, but last night I took the Sulfur-II data and here's the final composition! Exposure times are quite a mess:
Ha - 36x600s at -15ºC
OIII - 30x600s at -15ºC
SII - 30x300s at -20ºC
Equipment:
ASI183MM Pro
Baader Ha, OIII and SII filter
TS80 Triplet Apo with x0.79 reducer
NEQ6 Pro II Modified mount with autoguiding
Tierpark Hagenbeck, Hamburg, Germany
Asiatischer Elefant***Asian elephant***Elephas maximus
Anjuli born 2015-07-13
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A very large and very dead oak tree respectfully known as the elephant graveyard fell to the ground today. Its impact was felt. Like the ents of Tolkien's stories, these behemoths from the past sometimes seem to be the last of their kind. This particular tree would have once stood in an environment thriving with biodiversity. The remaining trees, its siblings, still stand tall and proud, but the next generation is under many threats. This was one of the last of a special and amazing generation of trees. For years, this tree has been dead, but its presence provided a haven for woodpeckers. Downy, red-bellied, hairy, pileated, have all been known to visit the elephant graveyard. Now, the soil, the fungi, the mold, the insects, the earthworms, and more will reclaim the mighty oak. Its impact echos on.
Nikon Z fc, Nikkor Z MC 50mm
f7.1, 1/125, ISO200
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Pardon the simple title but when it came up, it stuck. These are wild wild elephants and I was alone in the middle of nowhere at Grootvlei dam near the border with Mozambique. I also was a bit too close for comfort but sensed that they were not in an aggressive mood. Sorry again for the childish title.
Full frame (actually too full). No crop.
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