Elephants R Us
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Almost having my red color back….
It's a little stamp of an elephant and a photo from my archives……
Trying to get it organized again and to catch up with you all.
Happy to be back!
Wishing you a wonderful week ahead ;-))
Elephant, (family Elephantidae), largest living land animal, characterized by its long trunk (elongated upper lip and nose), columnar legs, and huge head with temporal glands and wide, flat ears. Elephants are grayish to brown in colour, and their body hair is sparse and coarse. They are found most often in savannas, grasslands, and forests but occupy a wide range of habitats, including deserts, swamps, and highlands in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and Asia.
The African savanna, or bush, elephant (Loxodonta africana) weighs up to 8,000 kg (9 tons) and stands 3 to 4 metres (10 to 13 feet) at the shoulder. The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), which lives in rainforests, was recognized as a separate species in 2000 and is smaller than the savanna elephant. It has slender, downward-pointing tusks. The common belief that there existed “pygmy” and “water” elephants has no basis; they are probably varieties of the African forest elephants.
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.
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Okavango Delta
Botswana
The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is the largest living terrestrial animal with bulls reaching a shoulder height of up to 4 m (13 ft). Both sexes have tusks, which erupt when they are 1–3 years old and grow throughout life.
It is distributed across 37 African countries and inhabits forests, grasslands and woodlands, wetlands and agricultural land. It is a social mammal, traveling in herds composed of cows and their offspring. Adult bulls usually live alone or in small bachelor groups. It is a herbivore, feeding on grasses, creepers, herbs, leaves and bark.
Since 2004, it has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. It is threatened foremost by habitat destruction, and in parts of its range also by poaching for meat and ivory.
They can weigh 7 t (7.7 short tons). The heaviest male on record weighed 10.4 t (11.5 short tons) and was shot in 1974 in Angola. Females are much smaller at about 2.2–2.6 m (7.2–8.5 ft) tall at the shoulder and up to 4 t (4.4 short tons) in weight. – Wikipedia
Normally I like the subject to fill the frame but in this one I liked how such a large animal seemed so small and irrelevant. This was taken in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania.
Young male elephants, in the same herd, will interact with each other at a relatively early age. As they get older they will play-fight with other young males of a similar age from other families.
They learn their own strength, build knowledge and develop the skills which they will need as mature males. When they reach about 12 to 15 years of age, they will leave the family and drift alone or join other families and later form groups. (Shingwedzi, Kruger National Park, RSA)
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Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Shot at Grootvlei Dam, at the moment a muddy pool in the middle of nowhere, bordering Mozambique. Just me and the elephant herd and I had a field day.
No crop
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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.
Hope you will enjoy this shot.
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Elephant Bedroom Camp, Samburu, Kenya, 2019.
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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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IC 1396 is an open star cluster embedded in a galactic nebula. The entire complex, often called the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, is a diffuse emission nebula. It is located in the constellation Cepheus and is about 2400 light years from Earth.
The nebula is huge, so it takes about 150 years for light to travel through it.
The entire area is crisscrossed by countless globules, dust knots and dark nebulae that barely let any light through. The most dramatic part of this is the Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC 1396A, VdB142) in the lower part of the image.
Lacerta 72/432, reducer 0,79x
IOptron SkyGuider Pro
Nikon D5500 modified
Optolong L-eNhance
Guiding w. MGEN-2
SIRIL / GraXpert / Photoshop
67x 2 min. @ ISO 3.200
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.
A small elephant herd on their way to somewhere :-)! This photo was taken in the Masai Mara in Kenya, Africa!
Elephant at Sunset.
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On all our tours I encourage our guests to also shoot verticals, not only horizontals. Magazines for instance, are all based on verticals, so if you ever want your picture to grace the cover or to be published on a full page, you'll need to shoot verticals as well.
A little while back I got an email from British Airways, asking whether I had a vertical version of my famous picture The Edge, of an elephant at Victoria Falls. And as a matter of fact I did, I just never processed it. When I started processing the image, I wondered why I hadn't done it earlier - the vertical version seems to make more sense because you can actually see the height of the falls and you can see all the water falling down.
Anyway, British Airways published the shot and I was happy they had given me a good reason to dive into my image library again.
Here's the background story that I wrote for the horizontal version:
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It's hard enough to make original pictures, but with some subjects it simply borders the impossible.
When I was at Victoria Falls last year, I thought about the billions of photographs that must have been taken there, and I almost decided to just visit the place without my camera. That was until I spoke with some of the local people, who told me that they had seen a bull elephant crossing the Zambezi river the day before. During my research I had not seen any images of the falls with an elephant in it, so I decided to stay a few extra days and try my luck.
The course of the Zambezi is dotted with numerous tree-covered islands, which increase in number as the river approaches the falls. As the dry season takes effect, the islets on the crest become wider and more numerous, and with the water level of the Zambezi dropping, once submerged walkways and fresh foraging possibilities present themselves. This elephant was apparently aware of this.
On the third day I left very early with a small boat to reach my location. On my way to the edge I suddenly saw the lone bull wading through shallow parts of the river, but it was far away and light levels were low, so I decided to continue to the falls. I took some sunrise shots and half an hour later I saw the elephant approaching the falls. I quickly collected my gear and moved carefully towards the edge where the water plummeted into a 360ft chasm - not particularly nice when you're afraid of heights... I set everything up in order to include as much as possible of the falls and made a composition. Luckily the elephant was aware of my preference to shoot into the light, so his position couldn't be better.
After I took the shots, I knew I had just witnessed and captured something very special. Later that day local people confirmed this by telling me that they had never seen an elephant so close to the edge of the falls before - exactly what I wanted to hear!
This image was featured as a double page spread in National Geographic, and won First Prize in the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards.
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Marsel
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Tierpark Hagenbeck, Hamburg, Germany
Asiatischer Elefant***Asian elephant***Elephas maximus
Anjuli born 2015-07-13
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
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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