Good Afternoon

[Ken Watkins]

Another image from Kennedy 2 Waterhole, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, 30th June 2010, 14.52.

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4 IS hand-held from vehicle

F9, ISO 800, 1/320, EV +0.33 (No idea why I used F9)

[Alfred Forns]

Like the pose and trunk up in the air Ken ... was thinking vertical for this one? Neat !!!!

[Austin Thomas]

A good pose Ken and I like the raised foot. F9 is a head scratcher as there was apparently not much light coming through the clouds.

Agree a vertical would also work if you have some more "headroom".

Cheers

Austin

[Harshad Barve]

I may try vertical here but loving the landscape format , space for elephant to 'march' in , You are killing us with Zimbabwe images :)
TFS

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks for the comments, F9 really stupid I have no logical excuses for that.

The major problem with the Elephants in Hwange is that there is so much going on at any one time that it is almost impossible to keep up with it (great problem to have)

This would definitely have been better in portrait, and a more open F stop, next time:D

[Stu Bowie]

Looks like the fellow was starting to warn you to get away from his territory. I like the raised trunk, and raised front foot too. Start of a mock charge maybe???

[John Blumenkamp]

I really like the raised trunk and the raised left front leg... the mostly 'head on' angle is great to see the mouth, and the eye contact makes this even better. Awesome capture!

[Ken Watkins]

Stuart,

He was just arriving at the waterhole, and I like to think he was greeting the others allready drinking, but of course he was just sniffing them out.

John,

Thanks a lot, Elephants are so expressive.