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    Ken Watkins
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    Two relatively young Elephants enjoy their tussle before a drink.

    Taken at Hapoor Dam, Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa. 18th April 2012

    EOS 1D MkIII

    70-200mm MkII at 102mm

    F5.6, ISO 400, 1/2000

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    I like this one. Especially the right Ellie's trunk near the left ones eye. I wonder if zooming out to 70mm adding in more environment and cropping some off the bottom would give it a bit more but thats for the landscape guys like Morkel to give feedback on.

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    This is too good Ken , love the position of elephants and background , big congrats
    TFS

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    Ken,

    perfect timing and excellent techs. Also like the choice of focal length providing wider view.

    -Sid

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    Hi Ken ,
    like this one .Nice behavior /landscape shot,the colors look alright.I agree with Dumay about a wider shot ,would be nice to see the animals as part of their environment .What you can do is,i would give the clouds more contrast to bring more differentiation and shape into them ( is clear what i mean?).AS always just my taste.

    Cheers Andreas

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    Ken - fun behavioral shot, well captured. I like the inclusion of the environment.

    TFS,
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    Thanks everybody, I did not go any wider because of the artificial looking nature of the water hole on the right hand side it gets even more noticable, an all to common occurrence, unfortunately.

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    very fine and interesting image. Love the interaction

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    Nice wider take here. I like that you kept them below the far hill-horizon.
    I might be tempted to crop tighter here, losing much of the space on the LHS and some off the top.
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