Lunch Reunion
Hello out there,
Looking for wildlife can be quite exhausting, especially if you drive through a landscape with dense foliage, where you try to spot the animals trough gaps in bushes and trees. But sometimes you can be lucky and just drive around a bush, where an open plain reveals the perfect view on a group of elephants, standing right in front of you. This happened to us on a safari in the Addo Elephant Park on the Eastern Cape in South Africa.
Of course, I had my camera lying on my lab ready to shot since we entered the park and therefore did not want to waste the opportunity and instantly took a couple of photographs. But the elephants, which are probably used to vehicles with cameras hanging out of their sides, did pay too much attention and stayed where they are. With already having a couple of pleasant photos on my memory card, I wanted to improve the scene, by changing the location of our vehicle to get a better view of the group from its side. This definitely helped, since now they were not standing behind, but mostly beside, each other. As then suddenly a grey elephant should up and joint the group of mostly brown ones, the scene was perfectly set to be captured. So I just had to press the shutter.