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Your Daily Elephant

A continuing series of photographs.  About to fling some dust.  Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

 

 

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Your Daily Elephant

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

A continuing photographic series.  Did you know elephants have beards?  Okavango Delta, Botswana.

 

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Your Daily Elephant

A continuing photographic series.  Diamond on her forehead.  Quite the princess.  Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

 

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

Matriarch, Zimbabwe.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Moon moon

 

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

Day moon, night moon, moon moon. Day moon a pale button; night moon a lantern; moon moon a nursery rhyme, a fat, simple face in a blue, blue sky.

Moon so bright not even clouds can hide its face. Veiled, unveiled, moon climbing rungs on a ladder of clouds.

A punctuation point in an immense sky behind a flowing river of clouds.

An opalescent moon, rich with the memory of hot gases, bone-crushing weights, and stories of when the universe was new.

Moon stares through rippling clouds, stares with careful attention upon the earth.

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Your Daily Elephant

A continuing photographic series.  In your face.  (But she was really just getting a good sniff at us.)  Chobe National Park, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

A continuing series of photographs.  I’m often asked, “how close do you get to elephants?”  Well, sometimes this close.  That’s my seat-mate’s hand in the lower corner.  This is the Chobe River area of Chobe National Park, Botswana.  Lovely grasses and rushes for the elephants to eat.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

 

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Your Daily Elephant

Can you tell this young mother is mad at us?  Luckily, she went one way and we went the other.  Savuti, Botswana.

Photograph by Cheryl Merrill
Photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

 

Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography, Travel

Your Daily Elephant

A continuing photographic series.  Always pack your lunch.  Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

 

Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography

Your Daily Elephant

An ongoing photographic series.  It’s safer when you’re under mom.  Chobe National Park, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill