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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

 

Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Nonfiction, Photography, Travel

Camouflage

Camouflage is the art of hiding in plain sight. Of standing perfectly still, keeping silent, blending in, getting lost in the background, resembling something else. It’s an art practiced to conceal feelings, disguise intent, blind danger. Sometimes it’s a necessary skill for survival. Even elephants know how to disappear.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Your Daily Elephant

Continuing a series of photographs on elephants.  Sunset in Etosha National Park, Namibia.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

 

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Your Daily Elephant

Continuing series of photographs of elephants.  Big male, collared and studied by Ian Douglas-Hamilton in the Samburu area of Kenya.  So handsome his name is Apollo.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Your Daily Elephant

Continuing a photographic series in the daily lives of elephants.  And playing with the watercolor mode in Photoshop.  These elephants are part of the endangered Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe.  Endangered by the very government that decreed them “Presidential.”

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Your Daily Elephant

A photographic series in the daily lives of elephants.  Large bull coming up from the Savuti River, carrying a waterline. Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

A photographic series on the daily lives of elephants.  Passing us by, lovely eye.  South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

A photographic series of the lives of elephants.  Bachelor male, Savuti, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography, Travel

Your Daily Elephant

A continuing photographic series in the daily lives of elephants.  Bachelor bull at a waterhole, blowing bubbles.  Savuti, Botswana

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography, Travel

Your Daily Elephant

A continuing photographic series on the daily lives of elephants.  One of the Samburu herd female members.  A mother to the calves I posted yesterday.  Samburu, Kenya.

 

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill