Greeting the newcomer

[Hilary Hann]

One of the younger elephants coming in to greet the mother of a very small calf. Lewa WC, April 2008. The mother has a strange light colour to her left hand face, not sure what it is so decided to leave it. Don't mess with nature.
30D; 200mm; f6.7; 1/1000; +0.5 EV; ISO 640
Slight crop from rhs and top.

[Harshad Barve]

This is such a sweet image , excellent moment and very well captured here
TFS

[Rachel Hollander]

Hilary - like the image and the interaction. Almost missed the baby in the middle, where's the lawnmower tool? :D Only thing I might try is to lighten the shadow on the elephant on the left's face.

TFS,
Rachel

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Hilary

Like the interaction, might have liked a little more of the elethin on the left (elethin vs elefat for the big ones :) ). Image looks sort of unbalanced?

Regarding the face wouldtreaat according to use, documenting leave alone but fix for printing .... As presented it does not detract !!

[Hilary Hann]

Thanks all. No more room on lhs. Wish the calf had raised it trunk or something but not to be.

[Marc Mol]

Nice image depicting their behavior Hilary, the white patch on mum could be from a salt lick calcium deposit?
TFS