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Your Daily Elephant

Matriarch, Zimbabwe.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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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
Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography, Travel

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

 

 

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Your Daily Elephant

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

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

 

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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

 

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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