A different view. Never tried the safari elephant as a framing element. Moving a bit higher to include the full face would have been better. Ofcourse, without the finger at the left it would have been better.

It is not easy to move around from one part of the elephant to other. One photographer fell from an elephant while trying to photograph a tigress and her four grown up cubs. The shocked cubs fled in different directions. The tigress got annoyed and growled. Fortunately, she didn't charge. And this photographer could escape unhurt as he fell on the marsh. Ofcourse, his ego took a big mauling.

I think two years, in bandhavgarh the collector fell down from the elephant. There has been cases when the elephant has got scared and ran away.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi