For the Macro Mondays theme “Holiday Bokeh”.

"""Happy Macro Monday everyone!!"""", says this little blue elephant ;-)

This was a very rushed hike to see Goldstream park on the way to the ferry. Would we be late or would we make our ferry. After waiting for a rather large lady that I didn't want to mess with finish her swim I managed to get a quick shot in and bolt for the ferry. Yes it looks like an Elephant!! Thanks for looking. Kris.

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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.

Elephant family - Chobe, Botswana

A herd consists of a few female elephants and their babies and offspring.

Maeteang Elephants Park - the workers having a break

One elephant is often the "guard" for other members of the herd, especially when there are young ones!

Letter opener inherited from Brother-in-law 💕🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘

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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An Elephant having lunch at Taronga Park Zoo Sydney

Deep Dream Generator did a nice job on my elephant photo.

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.

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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

Taronga Zoo, Sydney

Deilephila elpenor

My Garden 24-07-2022

Mother Punda with 3 daughters;

Bongi, Pina-Nessi and the little Madiba (born Mai 4, 2016)

African elephant in Kruger National Park, August 2014

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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Taken in Botswana

Herd of Elephants on the march to the local spring for some much needed water. A distinct pecking order of who drinks first upon arrival.

I felt so small....

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N.P. Etosha, Namibia

Desert elephants

Halali waterhole

Captured at Minneriya National Park

Thank you for your visit, kind comments, group invites and faves. Always greatly appreciated.

Elephants Play-fighting.

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Small section of a much bigger herd !

Elephant bulls (Loxodonta africanus) - the Kafue River, Kafue National Park, Zambia.

Elephant at Sunset.

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Elephants are so powerful. Couldn't help but add them to my animal series.

It is said that you can tell where an elephant comes from by looking at the size of his ears. African ears are like a map of Africa and Asian ears smaller like the shape of India. African ears are much bigger and reach up and over the neck, which does not occur in Asian elephants.

Chobe National Park, Botswana, 2015.

find the second elephant

at sunrise on the Okaukuejo waterhole, Etosha NP, Namibia

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An Elephant Hawk Moth (Deilephila elpenor) from a moth trap. Ever since I was a boy I've been fascinated by the incredible colour scheme of these moths. I've been experimenting with different approaches to photographing moths from moth traps. As always, often the simplest methods are best. This was just handheld by holding it up to the sky, and using a twin flash with my concave diffuser designs.

Tierpark Hagenbeck, Hamburg, Germany

Asiatischer Elefant***Asian elephant***Elephas maximus

Anjuli born 2015-07-13

Elephant at Pilanesberg, South Africa.

Such a cute little fellow acting so confident and sure of himself!!! Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

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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