Testing his 'wings'

[Hilary Hann]

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. We had been watching a family of elephants on and off all day, and this calf in particular was very feisty. Here he is giving us some mock charges, after having scared off his older cousins who obliged him by running away.
7D; 100-400 @ 190; ISO400; 1/500; f5.6 HH, manual exp, slight crop top and bottom

[Harshad Barve]

Absolute cuteness alert all over , excellent compo and love the design and treatment to image
TFS

[Grant Atkinson]

Hi Hilary, all looks pretty good to me. Nice flared ears, good foot position, good detail in the elephant, and all with warm earthy dry season tones. You did well to get one clear and in the open. Composition looks good too.
cheers
Grant

[Hilary Hann]

Thanks Harshad and Grant.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Fantastic textures and colors....Colurs look great and the ears take the image over the top

[Ken Watkins]

I would have said that the colurs look odd, but I know that you have kindly told me that the dust colours in Lewa are like this.

My only nit would be perhaps a little more foot lift?

[Marc Mol]

These little guys aren't easy to capture out in the open, well done too on a relatively clean BG.
They remind me of a rat on steroids!
TFS

[Arthur Morris]

Light soft, image sharp, colors pleasing, flared ears wonderful, and a nice clean animal. All that I would have wished for would have been that the animal were looking right at you.

[Hilary Hann]

Thanks Dumay, Ken, Marc & Artie.
Ken, yes colours are accurate for dust conditions.
Dumay, you are probably more familiar than I with these youngsters but I love the almost pristine look of their ears at this age, so unblemished.
Marc, never thought of rats but it does ring bells of recognition.
Artie, I'll have to hold out for eye contact next time.

[Arthur Morris]

Good plan Hillary :) It is a loverly and cute image.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Hilary this is super! The flared ears makes this exquisite...yes direct eye contact would have been exhilirating, but I would take this any day of the week. I like the dusty colours and nice textures you captured.

[Hilary Hann]

Thanks Morkel.

[Rachel Hollander]

Hilary - this is too cute and the colors are super. The ear position is outstanding. I might like a tiny bit more space at the bottom to give more of the feel of getting ready to charge.

TFS,
Rachel

[Hilary Hann]

Thanks Rachel.

[Stu Bowie]

Excellent detail Hilary, and of course the flapping ears add interest. I like colour tone in this.

[Steve Kaluski]

You & Morkel are certainly tugging at the 'cuteness' heart strings, priceless Hilary.

TFS
Steve

[Hilary Hann]

Thanks Stuart & Steve.

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Fantastic image Hilary, those flapped ears make it for me, cuteness factor is also great TFS

[Steve Canuel]

Cute little guy (love those ears!). I like the color tone of this.