Drinking from the Savuti River, near Chobe National Park, Botswana.
Your Daily Elephant
Drinking from the Savuti River, near Chobe National Park, Botswana.
Category: Africa
Vision
There is a cold way of seeing that clips wings and stifles our words into faint echoes. But there is also a way of seeing where the eye can be like a mouth, swallowing color, taking in the entire world with one choking gulp.
A rabbit has a 360º field of vision, so that it might gauge the distance between itself and its attacker. Humans have front-facing, binocular vision. It’s hard for us to look at where we have been and where we are going, impossible to see both the stars and the ground at once.
An elephant’s vision is front facing, binocular, but an elephant also has a large blind spot caused by its nose. Place both hands between your eyes in the manner of prayer and you will see what I mean.
It is said that elephants will stare at a full moon; do they also see the stars?
What would it be like to think without words and recognize shapes without names?
There is a cave of light from our eye to our brain. But it is the corners of our eyes that perceive the most light; the corners of our minds where we begin to understand.
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Old photo from Chief’s Island. Jabu carrying bark stripped from a tree.
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That wonderful evening light. Eating grass, South Luangwe National Park, Zambia
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Dealing with someone else’s dung. Some days are like that. Linyanti area, Okavango Delta, Botswana.
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You lookin’ at me? You lookin’ at ME! Watch out for yourself, buster. Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana.
Your Daily Elephant
A continuing series of elephant photographs. Roadside attraction, South Luangwe National Park, Zambia
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Digging a hole for water, near the Chobe River, Botswana.
Your Daily Elephant
Drinking from the Chobe River, Botswana.
Your Daily Elephant
Slit-eared male, Savuti area, Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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