African elephants play fighting.

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaplay fightingMasai Mara National ReserveKenya

African elephants play fighting.

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaplay fightingMasai Mara National ReserveKenya

African Elephants having a bath in the river

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaMara RiverMasai Mara National Reserve

African Elephants having a bath in the river

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReserveMara River

African Elephants having a bath in the river

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaMara RiverMasai Mara National Reserve

African Elephants having a bath in the river

African Elephants having a bath in Mara River.

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaMara RiverMasai Mara National Reservephotographic

African Elephants crossing the river

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National Reservephotographic

African Elephants crossing the river

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National Reservephotographic

African Elephants crossing the river

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaMara RiverMasai Mara National Reservephotographic

Elephants enjoying a dust bath

After a swim in the river, the elephant hers enjoys a dust bath.

African ElephantLoxodonta africanadust bathMasai Mara National Reserve

African Elephant charging at a baboon

Elephants are enjoying a dust bath when a babbon stops to look at them. The leader gets mad and charges. The baboon scampers for safety.

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National Reservephotographic

Elephants enjoying a dust bath

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National Reservephotographic

Elephants enjoying a dust bath

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National Reservephotographic

African elephants with baby

African Elephants with baby

African elephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReserveKenyaHorizontal

African elephant with baby

African Elephant walking with baby after taking a mud bath.

African elephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReserveKenyaHorizontal

African elephant with baby

African Elephant walking with baby after taking a mud bath.

African elephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReserveKenyaHorizontal

African elephant with baby

African Elephant walking with baby after taking a mud bath.

African elephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReserveKenyaHorizontal

baby elephant enjoying a dustbath.

baby elephantAfrican elephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReserveKenya

African elephant with baby

African elephant walking with baby

African elephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReserveKenyaHorizontal

African elephant with baby

African elephant walking with baby

African elephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReserveKenyaHorizontal

African elephant with baby

African elephant walking with baby

Loxodonta africanaAfrican elephantMasai Mara National ReserveKenyaHorizontal

Elephant with baby

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReserveKenyababy elephant

After days of dry and hot weather, it suddenly poured in Mara. The elephant herd went beserk with joy especially the youngsters who started playing in the mud.

African ElephantLoxodonta AfricanamudplayingMasai Mara National ReserveKenya

After days of dry and hot weather, it suddenly poured in Mara. The elephant herd went beserk with joy especially the youngsters who started playing in the mud.

African ElephantLoxodonta AfricanaMasai Mara National ReservemudplayingKenya

After days of dry and hot weather, it suddenly poured in Mara. The elephant herd went beserk with joy especially the youngsters who started playing in the mud.

African ElephantLoxodonta AfricanamudplayingMasai Mara National ReserveKenya

After days of dry and hot weather, it suddenly poured in Mara. The elephant herd went beserk with joy especially the youngsters who started playing in the mud.

African ElephantLoxodonta AfricanaMasai Mara National ReservemudplayingKenya

African Elephant herd resting in shade

African ElephantLoxodonta africanarestingMasai Mara National ReserveKenya

African Elephant resting in shade.,

African ElephantsLoxodonta AfricanaMasai Mara National Reserverestingkenya

African Elephant in the long grass of the swamp

African ElephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReserveKenyaswamp

African Elephant in the long grass of the swamp

Masai Mara National ReserveAfrican ElephantLoxodonta africanaswamp

Young African Elephant

African Elephantloxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReserveKenya

Upside down view

This is how an African Elephant in Masai Mara looks as he is about to trample you.

Masai Mara National ReserveKenyaAfrican ElephantLoxodonta Africancolor photograph.

Elephant memories

This is what future generations would say. An elephant will be just a memory, no more a reality. A dream where they will walk on Earth at peace, as they were born to do; kept alive only in our minds. In April 2016 105 tons of Ivory was burnt in Nairobi. It pained me to see how many elephants were brutally killed. It became a part of my life's work to capture on camera the remaining few living. This picture captures two things (depending on how you look at it): 1. They are walking out from heaven to earth and 2. The elephants slowly fading to nothing but memory. Their fragility is in our hands. This image gives a dramatic feel to many juxtapositions- power & frailty, gentility & giant.

AfricanElephantLoxodontaafricanaMasaiMaraNationalReserveKenya

African elephant baby eating grass from mother's trunk.

African elephantmother and babyLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReserveKenya

African elephant baby eating and playing with grass.

African elephantbabyeatingplayingMasai Mara National ReserveKenya

African elephant baby eating grass.

African elephantbabyLoxodonta africanaeatingMasai Mara National Reserve

African elephant baby suckling grazing mothe.

African elephantmother and babyLoxodonta africanagrazingMasai Mara National Reserve

African elephant family grazing

African elephantLoxodonta africanaMasai Mara National ReservegrazingKenya

Muddy baby stands under mother

Muddy baby stands under mother in a mud bath session.
After a long walk from the forest at the bottom of Mount Kilimanjaro, the elephant family decided to have a mud and a dust bath. The little baby seemed to enjoy this ritual. The family then moved on into the marshes of Amboseli National Park.

African ElephantLoxodonta africanamuddy babymotherAmboseli National ParkKenya

9021JPEG

African Elephant shaking soiil from grass roots while feeding in Ol Pejeta, Laikipia

African ElephantLoxodonta AfricanasoilfeedingOl PejetaLaikipiaKenya

African Elephant shaking soiil from grass roots while feeding in Ol Pejeta, Laikipia

African ElephantfeedingsoilOl PejetaLoxodonta AfricanaLaikipiaKenya

African Elephant shaking soiil from grass roots while feeding in Ol Pejeta, Laikipia

African ElephantLoxodonta AfricanafeedingsoilOl PejetaLaikipiaKenya

African Elephants playing in Ol Pjeta, Laikipia.

African ElephantLoxodonta AfricanaplayingOl PejetaLaikipiaKenya

African Elephants playing in Ol Pjeta, Laikipia.

African ElephantLoxodonta AfricanaplayingOl PejetaLaikipiaKenya