There was a lioness lying just to our right as we watched this elephant family approach from our left on the way to the swamp one morning in Amboseli, Kenya.

Once the family were near the lioness and ourselves, the single file formation became an ambling group where the adults surrounded and enclosed this youngster. Then they passed, and once out of danger, the family reformed to their previous formation of a single file.

We forgot about photography for a while, and just enjoyed these families pass us by on the Amboseli Plain.

Taken using a Nikon D200 with a 70-200 f2.8 lens with a 1.4 converter at f/8.0, 1/250 and ISO 100

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