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Your Daily Elephant

A continuing photographic series about elephants.  Here’s Morula, waving “hello” at you.  Chief’s Island, Okavango Delta, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography, Travel

Your Daily Elephant

A continuing series of elephant photographs.  Watercolor of Thembi, photoshopped.  Loved all the original blues and thought it might look great as a watercolor.  Chief’s Island, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

A continuing series of elephant photographs.  “Mom, this is getting deep!”  Nearly stuck in the mud in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.

Photograph by Cheryl Merrill
Photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography, Thembi

Your Daily Elephant

A continuing series of elephant photographs.  That beautiful evening light.  Eye level with Thembi in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography, Travel

Your Daily Elephant

A continuing series of elephant photographs.  Ear hair.  Yep, just like all men (and some women).  Grows longer with age, too.  Okavango Delta, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography, Travel

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

 

 

 

Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography, Travel

Your Daily Elephant

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

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

 

Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography

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
Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography, Travel

Your Daily Elephant

Matriarch, Zimbabwe.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

Posted in Africa, Nature, Photography, Travel, Writing

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.