Elephants cooling off in all directions

[V S Sankar]

This pond is on the Gundulpet-Muthanga road and is Bandipur territory.I have to click sitting within the car without tripod or any other supprt.

Canon 400d,55-250is,1/100sec,5.6ISO 200 hand held

Regards

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice behaviour captured. It is difficult to compose when there is a huge herd. If possible you could have moved the camera a bit more to the left to include the elephant in full. Thanks for sharing.

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Nice image, wish you had included the elephant on the left. It is always a treat to watch elephants in water
tfs

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Sankar,
I agree that zooming out to include the elephant on the left or moving the camera to the left would have strengthened the composition. If you are in the car, then you can fold a towel or jacket on the window and press the camera on it and shoot. Some support is better than nothing. Look forward to other compositions.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Nikhilesh Mahakur]

Would have been a better composition had you included the elephant on the left, and I think there was a calf behind it. A bit of patience and probably you could have got that too.

[V S Sankar]

I agree with your comments Sabyasachi.

Nikhilesh,as far as patience is concerned I had all the time and patience to set up my tripod and take some good sharp images.But a forest guard wouldn't allow me to!!

I was on the Gundulpet-Muthanga road and if one vehicle is stationary then the others passing by also stops and looks around causing a mini traffic jam.In Kerala people have a tendency to come out of the vehicles and look at wildlife at close quarters.This is dangerous and I dont blame the forest guard.He gesticulated me to immediately drive off and I clicked(Iam the driver)3 shots in 3 seconds.

This was the best I could get!!

Regards