Digging a hole for water, near the Chobe River, Botswana.


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.
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.
