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"One-Tusk" (106)
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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 7851 W: 334 N: 11976]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (41686) | I wanted to post this image for a few reasons. First it is the only elephant I managed to take (among many) with his ears out like Dumbo, although there is some motion blur of his ears. Secondly you will have noticed he only has one tusk and he is tagged as you can see on the top of his head. I am wondering if these two facts are related in any way. It would be interesting to know what happened to him. Thirdly notice the tree trunk on the right. It is the trunk of a baobab tree, a delicacy for elephants. They like every part of the tree, in particular the trunk which stores water. An elephant can easily destroy a whole tree. Many of the baobabs we saw were chewed like this one.
I took the photo early in the morning in the Tarangire National Park before it was fully light so had the ISO up to 500.
Most of the elephants we saw were very close; you didn’t need a long zoom. Ideally you need two cameras with different lenses on, as there isn’t much time to change lenses and anyway it’s very dusty and not advisable.
In the WS there is one I took earlier while he was further away.
ISO500, FL82mm |
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| I performed a little aesthetic dental surgery on the bull elephant, copy, pasting, transforming, rotating and translating. In the same spirit as Rob Zwemmer invoked in my image "Morning has broken." I hope you don't mind the meddling. Bulent |
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This one was taken a few minutes earlier. If you compare the focal lengths you can see he was walking towards us. He seems to have a tree growing out of his head ;D
ISO500, FL120mm, f6.3, 1/125 |
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