Dustbuster
An elephant is throwing dust over itself with its trunk on a bare earth slope with trees in the background under a blue sky. It has mud stains on its trunk, and the dust is exploding in a cloud against its wrinkled grey skin. Shot with a Nikon D810 and an 80-400mm lens in Chobe National Park in Botswana in April 2016.
ISO 140, 85mm, f/8, 1/500, 0 EV
This image won Best of Show in Grey Cube Gallery's Nature exhibition (see video), first place in Art Room Gallery's 'Nature' competition in March 2018 (see video), was part of the winning Wildlife Series in the 15th Pollux Awards/The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, won a Readers’ Choice award on ePHOTOzine, finished second in SINWP's 'In the Wild' Photography Competition, was a finalist in Fusion Art's 3rd Annual Animal Kingdom Art Exhibition in January 2018 (see video), was National Geographic's Photo of the Day on 9 October 2017 and received nearly 25,000 likes when it was featured on Instagram! It was also runner-up in The Daily Telegraph's weekly Big Picture competition and Outdoor Photography's Reader Gallery.
An elephant is throwing dust over itself with its trunk on a bare earth slope with trees in the background under a blue sky. It has mud stains on its trunk, and the dust is exploding in a cloud against its wrinkled grey skin. Shot with a Nikon D810 and an 80-400mm lens in Chobe National Park in Botswana in April 2016.
ISO 140, 85mm, f/8, 1/500, 0 EV
This image won Best of Show in Grey Cube Gallery's Nature exhibition (see video), first place in Art Room Gallery's 'Nature' competition in March 2018 (see video), was part of the winning Wildlife Series in the 15th Pollux Awards/The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, won a Readers’ Choice award on ePHOTOzine, finished second in SINWP's 'In the Wild' Photography Competition, was a finalist in Fusion Art's 3rd Annual Animal Kingdom Art Exhibition in January 2018 (see video), was National Geographic's Photo of the Day on 9 October 2017 and received nearly 25,000 likes when it was featured on Instagram! It was also runner-up in The Daily Telegraph's weekly Big Picture competition and Outdoor Photography's Reader Gallery.
An elephant is throwing dust over itself with its trunk on a bare earth slope with trees in the background under a blue sky. It has mud stains on its trunk, and the dust is exploding in a cloud against its wrinkled grey skin. Shot with a Nikon D810 and an 80-400mm lens in Chobe National Park in Botswana in April 2016.
ISO 140, 85mm, f/8, 1/500, 0 EV
This image won Best of Show in Grey Cube Gallery's Nature exhibition (see video), first place in Art Room Gallery's 'Nature' competition in March 2018 (see video), was part of the winning Wildlife Series in the 15th Pollux Awards/The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, won a Readers’ Choice award on ePHOTOzine, finished second in SINWP's 'In the Wild' Photography Competition, was a finalist in Fusion Art's 3rd Annual Animal Kingdom Art Exhibition in January 2018 (see video), was National Geographic's Photo of the Day on 9 October 2017 and received nearly 25,000 likes when it was featured on Instagram! It was also runner-up in The Daily Telegraph's weekly Big Picture competition and Outdoor Photography's Reader Gallery.
“A wonderful close-up of this powerful animal”
“An explosion of dust...superbly caught 😁😁”
“Beautiful...”
“Very well captured, Nick”
“A stunning shot”
“Magnificent elephant and photography skills. Kudos, Nick.”