ENTRY DESCRIPTION
African Forest Elephants differ from their better-known savanna cousins in being smaller and more agressive, especially outside their forest homes. While travelling through Gabon's Loango National Park, I encountered this forest elephant grazing outside the edge of the forest. It immediately fled into the safety of the forest, and I, believing that the encounter was over, started to pack my camera gear. However, the same elephant suddenly stormed out of the forest and started to run at me with murder in its beady eyes (their eyes are paler than savanna elephants' orange eyes). I managed to click a few close-up frames of its angry face before fleeing. Fortunately it turned out to be a mock charge, meant to warn me. And I heeded that warning!

AUTHOR
Quite soon after my birth in 1952 I started in film photography and have now progressed to digital mirrorless. After graduating from Harvard I taught physics at Atlanta's Georgia Tech from which I retired to devote myself to travel and photography. My favorite travel destinations are Zambia's South Luangwa, Botswana's Okavango Delta, Brazil's Pantanal, and South Georgia Island . My favorite animals subjects are big cats and wild dogs. I favor animal-in-habitat images as well as close-up portraits with eye contact - not an easy task since eye contact with wild animals tends to be fleeting.

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