ENTRY DESCRIPTION
I captured this image of a lone male elephant in Amboseli National Park, Kenya in March of 2024. Amboseli is known for being home to some of the last great “Super Tuskers” in Africa. A “Super Tusker” is defined as a bull elephant whose tusks each weigh more than 100 pounds and there are estimated to be less than 20 of them left on the planet.
This is “Tee-Jay”, one of a handful of super tuskers that call Amboseli home. He was strolling through the tall grass on a lazy afternoon on his way home from the marsh. I particularly like that his great tusks are dragging through the top of the grass and that he is giving a ride to two oxpeckers. Elephants and oxpeckers have a symbiotic relationship where the oxpeckers eat the ticks and bugs from the elephants skin.

AUTHOR
Jim is a self-taught photographer who began exploring photography in 2007 as entertainment on weekends during long business trips to Europe and Asia. Jim ventured deeper into photography after retiring and continues to hone his craft on the local area's scenic vistas and through an active travel schedule. Jim’s priority is collecting images from around the world, intended to stir awareness and offer glimpses of elements in nature and distant cultures that are rapidly changing, and in some cases at risk of disappearing entirely.

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