During the dry season, water can be quite scarce and most animals will congregate around the best, nearest water source. At Kanga...

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Zimbabwe, Africa

During the dry season, water can be quite scarce and most animals will congregate around the best, nearest water source. At Kanga Pan, in Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe, many types of wildlife can be found near the water throughout the day and night. They come to drink, mud-bathe and sometimes simply to frolic in the cooling waters.


Quietly sitting in a hide near the water can allow safe, up-close encounters with elephants. In this relatively tight shot, the main identifying traits of an elephant are readily identified: the tusk, the trunk and the eye.


Elephants are for the most part relatively monochromatic, and lend themselves to black and white photography. This accentuates the texture in the many folds of skin, and eliminates color as a distraction. Except for the eye: leaving it colored adds life to the image.

Photo © copyright by Dr. Edward Mikol.

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