Elephants on Cracked Soil

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Amboseli, 2012

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I am parking on the edge of the dry Amboseli Lake. It’s early morning and the sun is struggling to shine through a layer of clouds. From a small elevation I scan with the binoculars the opposite side of the lake. I see some Wildebeests, Zebras, Gazelles, a couple of Giraffes walking across. Small dust devils rise in the distance. Until finally huge dark shapes appear through the hazy air in the far distance. Elephants. They cross the lake frequently to reach the water points and the lush marshes in the heart of Amboseli. A matriarch leads her family on this long journey, which takes them about one hour on hard cracked soil. They follow ancient trails used by Elephants for thousands of years. Sometimes they pause to smell other Elephants’ droppings, to see who passed by before them. I stop a long way away ahead of them and wait for them to come towards me. The cracked soil of the lake is what fascinates me the most of this scene, the texture onthe earth’s surface. As the Elephants come closer and closer I point my wide angle to the ground and click as they fill the frame. They are just a few meters away yet I can’t hear a sound as they walk. Just a magnificent and timeless scene.

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