Here’s one of series of low wide angle views of a elephants I caught on Paradise Plain, in the Masai Mara Kenya last week.

I found myself taking more pictures of elephants than I’d expected last week. And It was fun too, they got close, and I got low. They proved mostly inquisitive of the camera, some coming to within a few feet. One or two elephant mothers became a little nervous with their young calves present, so we left them alone.

The camera was set very low to the ground as they passed, and the shutter tripped with a remote release. It was hit and miss initially, but eventually I learnt where to place the camera in relation to the subject, where to manual focus, whether higher or lower to the ground, all the while watching out for nearby obscuring grass and twigs too.

Taken using a Nikon D300 with 12-24 zoom lens at 16mm, f/11.0, 1/350th, and ISO 200.