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A lone Elephant in the Kruger National Park, trying to scare us off. This is a scan of a slide taken in about 1993, hence the slightly weird colour. This should be a little less yellow in colour balance, although the bushveld is a yellow colour and the leaves on the thorn tree in the foreground are slightly yellow. However it was taken in very strong light with probably a 500mm lens as I can assure you being this close to the elephant in this mood in reality, would have been too dangerous. I decided to submit this because of the composition and "animals in the wild" aspect, even though the quality of the scan could be better.

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~tonyfs1 Jul 25, 2006, 2:52:18 PM
Not been around for a while so much going on in the summer - love this he looks as dark and threatening as he is probably benefits from the strange colours and grain. :-)

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~parallel-pam Jul 26, 2006, 12:43:55 AM
yeah- my scanner is playing up big time at the moment- cant figure it out but it seems to be dragging yellow out of greens and blues out of white .grrrr

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*goldomega Jul 14, 2006, 6:37:01 AM
Keep away is right! I remember editing some video footage of Africa for one of my clients recently and one of the shots was very similar to this. Good times. =)

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~parallel-pam Jul 14, 2006, 7:48:03 AM
:thumbsup: :D

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~von-balthazar Jul 13, 2006, 3:12:56 PM
another shot of a very grand animal. i sorta like its clear three-tone effect, quite contemporary!! seriously though, another great shot

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~parallel-pam Jul 13, 2006, 11:08:14 PM
:thanks:..:-) glad you like it even though the colour is a little off..it does go off in an interesting way. I do believe it is the fault of the scanner rather than the slide though :-)

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*andyslade Jul 11, 2006, 4:53:38 AM
(After reading previous comments) - It's an old photo of a wild elephant so it's to be expected that it's not perfect. The photo tells a story of you getting closer than most to an elephant out in the bush - a shared memory of yours so to speak. :-)

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~parallel-pam Jul 11, 2006, 7:36:32 AM
..thanks Andy..yes..most of my photos are really more about sharing the moment and my attempts to do the moment photgraphic justice in the process - sort of incidental- in some respects :-)

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~OwainShaw Jul 10, 2006, 12:31:53 PM
Shame about the colours but otherwise fantastic, the portrait format, composition and framing.

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~parallel-pam Jul 11, 2006, 7:39:02 AM
thanks very much Owain..I guess not everything gets better with age :D

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