Elephants Returning From Mud Bath

[Gail Cordes]

While in Tanzania we saw this family of elephants who had obviously been taking a mud bath. I liked the way they are parading across the savanna.

7D with 100-400 at 100; evaluative metering at ISO 800, f8 at 1/1000 with EV -1/3. I used ISO 800 due to just getting done shooting fast action.

Cropped to pano for composition. Thanks for looking. C&C welcome.

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Gail,

Nice one, love the three together. Great BG, love the habitat and grassy foreground - great nature moment - TFS.

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Gail Must have been one fantastic trip !!! I'm enjoying the images !!!

Love how you framed it and showed the large picture, temptation would be to isolate !! Might only darken a bit the upper part !!! .... great seeing the big elefat with the two elethins :)

[Dave Mills]

Hi Gail, Great job on this, Even lighting with good positioning of the subjects. I like seeing the environment along with the minimalization of the sky.Well handled!

[Lance Peters]

Hi Gail - lovely - must have been wonderful seeing these guys - agree with all the comments above - Only thing I would do is to move your sig down to one on the bottom corners.
Good show :)