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Elephant Optics

Elephant Optics

I managed to get a great shot of this Matriarch elephant who I had worked with on a game reserve for 7 years. She would often come over and stare at me,smelling...
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I managed to get a great shot of this Matriarch elephant who I had worked with on a game reserve for 7 years. She would often come over and stare at me,smelling me with her trunk. So it was a matter of the light and at the right time and managed to get this with my fixed Canon 200mm 2.8 mrkii.
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Canon EOS 60D

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Aperture f/4.0 ISO 400 Shutter 1/1000 Focal Length 200/1

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May, 2015

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