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Elephant Eye

We were lucky enough to get really close to some family groups of elephants in Ruaha - they walked right around our vehicle where we had stopped! That allowed m...
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We were lucky enough to get really close to some family groups of elephants in Ruaha - they walked right around our vehicle where we had stopped! That allowed me to get this close-up of the eye of the matriarch, a shot I had wanted for a long time.
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Aperture f/5.6 ISO 800 Shutter 1/200 Focal Length 400/1

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Dec, 2015

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