Pile Up

[Rachel Hollander]

This large herd of elephants had at least 4 very young calves who liked to play. Here they piled on top of each other in the middle of a large tuft of grasses in the river bed.

Canon 7D2
300 II
1/1250
f6.3
ISO 800
Monopod from safari vehicle, ff, TK luminosity masks, curves, color adjustments, sharpened in PSCC.

C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,

Rachel

[Dumay de Boulle]

Hi Rachel...Nice action captured here. And the harsh light seems to have been well handled.
I would say that the youngster behind the reed is not ideal....I think the image would be stronger if it was visible.

[Marc Mol]

Cute moment and love the intense eye on the top ele, but not quite working for me Rachel due to the lower ele hidden by the vegetation.

TFS

[John Mack]

The elephant is nice and sharp wish you could see the other ones better. Looks a little bright to me.

[Gabriela Plesea]

Hello Rachel:)

This is too funny Love behavioural shots. Nice interaction here and I like the flying sand. This is well exposed and nice detail on the little one.

I would crop a tad more from the RHS, I am little drawn by the ear ( is it the ear?) of the other Ellie behind the two naughty ones.

Colours look good / natural. I have not tried but just thinking maybe darkening the FG as well as grasses would add more depth?

Really sweet image and I truly enjoyed viewing, thank you for sharing Rachel

Warmest regards,

[Steve Kaluski]

Cute moment and love the intense eye on the top ele, but not quite working for me Rachel due to the lower ele hidden by the vegetation.

Hi Rachel, Marc nailed the key issues and so it's not working for me either sadly.

TFS
Steve