Intelligent Giants, The Answers and The Winner


I admit it was a bit misleading. All the detail pictures in the last “Animal Species Identification Contest” were from the same species: African Elephants.

The first person to send in the correct answer to the question in the contest was Bob Ellis, Smyrna, Tennessee.  Congratulations!

To be more precise, all pictures were of the Elephants at Nashville Zoo at Grassmere.

During the next Nashville First Saturday Gallery Crawl there will be a special event at the Christian Sperka Photography Gallery.

In cooperation with the Nashville Zoo I will be showing many interesting  images and video clips of the Nashville Zoo Elephants.  There will be three presentations by Connie Philipp, Director of Animal Collections (at 6:30pm / 7:30pm and 8:30pm).

Learn more about these INTELLIGENT GIANTS – The Nashville Zoo Elephants

It would be great to see you at my Gallery in the Arcade (Downtown Nashville) on Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.

Getting Close!

Today I got a very good question from one of my blog readers about the “closeness” to animals on game drives (see comment and answer on the post MORNING MIST).

Here are two pictures of a case when the animal chose to come so close to our vehicle, that we made the decision to get out of the way :-). The second picture is taken from a considerable distance. The Elephant Bull past us quietly!

In the first picture you can see the dashboard of the car and the Elephant. It was pretty close.

Picture 1: Camera: Canon 1D Mark IV / Lens: Canon L 17-40mm at 28mm / Mode: AV / Shutter Speed: 1/320s / Aperture: f/4 / ISO: 400 / Exposure Correction +/-0.00eV / Metering: Central weighted / White balance: Auto / Time: winter morning / Freehand from vehicle

Picture 2: Camera: Canon 1D Mark IV / Lens: Canon L 17-40mm at 40mm / Mode: AV / Shutter Speed: 1/320s / Aperture: f/4 / ISO: 400 / Exposure Correction +1.00eV / Metering: Central weighted / White balance: Auto / Time: winter morning / Freehand from vehicle