Digging a hole for water, near the Chobe River, Botswana.
Your Daily Elephant
Digging a hole for water, near the Chobe River, Botswana.
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Your Daily Elephant
Drinking from the Chobe River, Botswana.
Your Daily Elephant
Slit-eared male, Savuti area, Chobe National Park, Botswana.
Your Daily Elephant
A continuing series of elephant photographs. Elephant molar, ridges like elongated dishes set to dry edgewise in a rack. Their molars work like huge horizontal vegetable graters, grinding food back and forth across sharp, upright edges. Elephants have four molars, two in the upper jaw, two in the lower. They erupt in the back of an elephant’s mouth and move forward, becoming a conveyor belt of teeth, crumbling off in pieces as they wear down in the front of the mouth. In their lifetimes elephants will have six sets of molars, the last set wearing down when an elephant is in its sixties. Only one percent of elephants will develop a seventh set.
Your Daily Elephant
A continuing series of elephant photographs. Missing tusk and broken tusk. Unknown stories in the life of this elephant. Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.
Your Daily Elephant
A continuing series of elephant photographs. Savuti male, covered in mud the color of glistening concrete. Chobe National Park, Botswana.
Funky, Jazzy Trombone Trunk
Snaking snorkeling vacuuming trunk. Showerhead. Backhoe. Slinky. Shimmying sucking swigging trunk. Empty pipe. Water gun. Periscope. Plucking siphoning tenacious trunk. Kazoo. Tweezers. Tentacle. Affectionate handshaking pickpocket trunk. Python. Air hose. Question mark. Whistling snorting sneezing trunk.
Breathtaking trunk.
Your Daily Elephant
A continuing series of elephant photographs. Sumo wrestling, elephant style. A young bull, testing his strength against an older male, gets pushed around. Savuti area, Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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A continuing series of photographs about elephants. This is my first photograph of an elephant, taken with an old Minolta, Kodak 400 film. The old film and my inexperience make this look like as if it’s an oil painting hundreds of years old. Zimbabwe, 1996, in that gorgeous evening light, a bull elephant.
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