This is the original colour version of the monochrome one of an elephant matriarch which I posted here last December. It’s one of a few pictures that proves just as strong in colour as it does in black and white. I took her picture from quite low down, about two inches or so off the turf, last November in the Masai Mara in Kenya.

I couldn’t have been luckier with the sky and light, and when I saw it, we quickly located and chose this matriarch, primarily because she was in the right place, and certainly because she had the nicest looking tusks in her group.

I posted this here today much because this picture appeared on EarthShot’s Photo of the Day today.

Taken using a Nikon D300 with 12-24 zoom lens at 20mm, f/11.0, 1/180th, and ISO 500.