Elephant Charge

[Rajan Kanagasabai]

The jeep ahead of us had spotted a Tiger and were pointing it to us as we joined them to watch the cat slowly move into the bushes. This mother elephant with two of her calf's were behind us as we passed them to get tp the the Tiger. Without warning the mother charged (she probably felt we were cutting off her view of the cat, which she must have been watching closely in the interest of her calf). Initially we thought it was a mock charge but the elephant got to within 10 feet of the jeep and the driver had to speed away.

Was a bit hard to focus on the eyes for the animal was coming towards us quite fast (the focus seems to be on the trunk / snout). Light was a bit low and had to resort to a high ISO.

5D M III, 400 DO f4 IS, F4, ISO 16000, 1/250, Hand held

regards
Rajan