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Elephant Family


Elephant Family
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Copyright: Goldy RS (goldyrs) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 593 W: 55 N: 1271] (4842)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-06-11
Camera: Canon S2 IS
Exposure: f/4, 1/320 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): CeltickRanger's favorite wild animal photos [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-08-24 19:35
Viewed: 347
Points: 32
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Thanks for welcoming me back with such warmth.
Here is another shot of my favourites, the Indian Elephant, here in a herd doing, well... elephant things!What else?
;)

Elephas maximus – Endangered

Taxonomy
Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: MAMMALIA
Order: PROBOSCIDEA
Family: ELEPHANTIDAE
Scientific Name: Elephas maximus
Species Authority: Linnaeus, 1758
Common Name/s: ASIAN ELEPHANT (Eng)
INDIAN ELEPHANT (Eng)
ELÉPHANT D'ASIE (Fre)
ELÉPHANT D'INDE (Fre)
ELEFANTE ASIÁTICO (Spa)

Assessment Information
Red List Category & Criteria: EN A1cd ver 2.3 (1994)
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations: Needs updating
Assessor/s: Asian Elephant Specialist Group
History: 1965 - "Very rare but believed to be stable or increasing" as E. m. ceylanicus (Scott 1965)
1986 - Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988 - Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990 - Endangered (IUCN 1990)
1994 - Endangered (Groombridge 1994)


Geographic Range
Countries: Native:

Bangladesh; Bhutan; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; China; India; Indonesia; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Viet Nam


Habitat and Ecology
System: Terrestrial

Citation: Asian Elephant Specialist Group 1996. Elephas maximus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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Hi Goldy,

nice shot of the Elephants.It's a pity that they are standing on the Red list. We the people have no place enough and want just more and more.
So I am also back with pictures.

Gert

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  • jaycee Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1862 W: 8 N: 4832] (15655)
  • [2008-08-24 22:07]

Hi Goldy,

Another wonderful scene from the park I hope to get to some day. What a thrill it would be to see these elephants there. Just beautiful with the animals, the rocks and the trees.

Jane

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  • Argus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2707 W: 139 N: 7809] (24333)
  • [2008-08-24 22:12]

Hello Goldy,
A great capture of a herd of feeding Indian Elephants.
I like the composition and the overall impression of the habitat that includes a fine forest BG and the long grass that they feed on. The rounded stones in the FG look as though are or have been part of a dried river bed.
TFS this fine image,
Ivan

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3461 W: 145 N: 5911] (17708)
  • [2008-08-24 22:39]
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Hi Goldy, I think that this is one of your best elephant shots. I just wish you have cropped around them closer so we could see them better.
Nice composition showing the family all together
TFS
Janice

Hi GoldyJi,

A very good capture of this elephant family.Are these captured in Corbett?We have an elephant santuary just 10-kms from Bhubaneswar and the man-elephant conflict has taken many a lives of these endengered species.You hv captured a very good documentary evidence of their behaviour.

Thanks a lot for sharing
Satya

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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3138 W: 148 N: 4731] (15287)
  • [2008-08-25 1:00]

Hi Goldy.
It is really nice subject for shooting. Pictured place is very nice^ impressive vegetation, lights stones on the ground, natural summer lights and colours and, of course, cute elephant family. Very nice POV and framing of the scene as ell as the DOF and details/sharpness. My compliments.
Alexei.

Greetings Goldy,

A spot on photo with lots elephants, its not something thats seen very often. Great shot

cypturk

Hello Goldy,

Very nice picture of this family of elephants. Very nice composition. Excellent DOF. I like the detail of the forest in the background. Good light and natural colours.
Cheers,
Mariki

Hi brother Goldy,
A nice and happy elaphant family you captured here! Really perfectly composed and detailed shot.
Many thanks for sharing this my friend!
Greetings from Izmir,
Bayram

I noted this last night right before bed but not until after my evening "repast". I tend not to generate words well after that short drink...so I waited until this AM...I like the notion of picturing endangered species.,.and even marking it in red was a good notion...It made it look all the more important..quite the long lens shot there...Very fine in Goldy style!
Bob

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  • Mana Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1760 W: 28 N: 5135] (16816)
  • [2008-08-25 10:27]

Hi Goldy,
Another classic image from JCNP and this elephant herd looks so busy doing what they know best. Great setting and a great capture. The dense forest and the rocky river bed is aptly portrayed here. Very nice composition. Thanks for sharing.
Sumon

Hi Goldy, great capture with a lot of elephants, good composition, very well done, bravo, ciao Silvio

Hello Goldy,
I am happy to see them having good time at Jim Corbett National Park. They are well sandwiched between FG of boulders & BG of lovely forest greenery. TFS.
Regards-Subhash

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  • uleko Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2543 W: 170 N: 7734] (24475)
  • [2008-08-27 6:47]

Hello Goldy,
It's lovely to see these elephants together out in the wild, I hope they'll be well protected for the future! Beautiful composition - I like the stony ground and the rainforest in the background. Well done!
TFS and regards, Ulla

Another lovely capture of this elephant family in their natural environments. TFS and greetings,
Bahadır

hello Goldy

and this one is the second image of your last ones
that i choosed to critique (to have smileys to every one)

another beautiful image took « sur le vif »
of wonderful wild animals, fine POV and DOF
i love that every one is on a different pose, TFS

Asbed

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