Animals – Page 58 – Jennifer Sawicky Photography

March 9, 2016

2016-03-09: Wordless Wednesday

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March 7, 2016

2016-03-07: Monochrome Monday & WPC Muse

I decided to combine my usual Monochrome Monday with a WPC topic of the week: Muse. What topic do I return to time and time again? What subject inspires me? What am I ALWAYS excited to photograph?

If you’ve read this blog for more than a week, you’ll know the answer, it’s easy:

Elephants 🙂

I’d happily spend a day, a week, a lifetime in the presence of elephants. Photographing them of course, but more importantly just being in their presence, enjoying their rumbles and trumpeting, feeling the vibrations of their communications at levels we can’t hear, revealing in their beautiful, peaceful nature.

Here are a couple photos that popped out at me this time for editing and posting.

Enjoy, and have a wonderful week.

20160307_Monochrome Monday-2 — A bull elephant grazing at breakfast time. The sun was at the perfect angle for a lovely shadow of his trunk on the ground behind him. Timbavati, May 2015

20160307_Monochrome Monday-3 — The perfect fly swatter.

20160307_Monochrome Monday — Shade is in short supply in the Damaraland desert. A family of elephants take turns under the shade of a small tree. Damaraland Camp, April 2015

Note – this isn’t the current WPC topic of the week… not even close. But when I was looking for the current one, this spoke one spoke to me. Onto Harmony later in the week.

WPC Muse

March 3, 2016

2016-03-03: world Wildlife Day

A few photos of my favourites, the elephants, on this World Wildlife Day.

20160303_Elephants-2 — Peeking out from the safety of Mom’s legs.

20160303_Elephants — Pausing for nourishment in the hills of the Damaraland desert.

20160303_Elephants-3 — Afternoon drinks break in the Sabi Sands.

March 2, 2016

2016-03-02: Wordless Wednesday

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February 20, 2016

2016-02-20: World Pangolin Day

I’ve already done a post with the best pangolin photos I managed to take (if you missed it the first time around, you can find it here). But as it’s world pangolin day, I thought I would see what I could do with a photo that didn’t make the original post, in a black and white edit. I like the way the texture of the scales are emphasized in monochrome.

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February 8, 2016

2016-02-08: Monochrome Monday

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January 27, 2016

2016-01-27: Wordless Wednesday

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January 26, 2016

2016-01-26: WPC Optimistic

I am optimistic that all of these beautiful creatures will have the opportunity to live out their lives in the way nature intended, without the influence of poacher’s or trophy hunter’s bullets. That is my hope, and if like minded people continue to join together, perhaps it will happen in my lifetime.

20160126_WPC Optimistic-3 — A leopard with one of her young, as they worked to reunite with the second cup (gratefully we were able to witness the reunion).
Ngala Game Reserve, May 2015

20160126_WPC Optimistic-4 — Part of an elephant parade on route to a waterhole for an early evening drink.
Sabi Sands, May 2015

WPC: Optimistic

January 20, 2016

2016-01-20: Wordless Wednesday

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January 18, 2016

2016-01-18: Monochrome Monday

As it turns out, I didn’t end up liking a single photo I took last week, so instead, I edited one from the archives that I was looking at over the weekend.