The day was not going really successful. I had been working with Raymond since very early in the morning with almost no animal in our way. Sunset was coming soon little by little. I noticed Raymond was not very happy about that. Me neither, but there are days like that one, when it doesn’t matter how many efforts and how hard you try, and you get nothing. And it is important to understand and to accept it, and still keep going on. And that’s why I like to work so much with Raymond and Juma. We are a team and we do not give up. So, after a small chat we decided to go to a different corner in the Amboseli national park, quite far from the most crowded areas. We might find something… and I tried my luck. And it was the right decision because Raymond spotted a group of elephants having a mud bad in a water hole. And we went there. It was simply fantastic... We could get relatively close to the herd and observe the scene for a while. But it was not till they finished their bad and decided to move somewhere else that they conformed this group and under the last evening sunlight started to walk. I loved the composition and the atmosphere. And photography for me is about this as well… to capture those beautiful daily moments in the life of these magnificent creatures, capturing the mood of that unique view under the sun and the cloudy sky of Amboseli.
The day was not going really successful. I had been working with Raymond since very early in the morning with almost no animal in our way. Sunset was coming soon little by little. I noticed Raymond was not very happy about that. Me neither, but there are days like that one, when it doesn’t matter how many efforts and how hard you try, and you get nothing. And it is important to understand and to accept it, and still keep going on. And that’s why I like to work so much with Raymond and Juma. We are a team and we do not give up. So, after a small chat we decided to go to a different corner in the Amboseli national park, quite far from the most crowded areas. We might find something… and I tried my luck. And it was the right decision because Raymond spotted a group of elephants having a mud bad in a water hole. And we went there. It was simply fantastic... We could get relatively close to the herd and observe the scene for a while. But it was not till they finished their bad and decided to move somewhere else that they conformed this group and under the last evening sunlight started to walk. I loved the composition and the atmosphere. And photography for me is about this as well… to capture those beautiful daily moments in the life of these magnificent creatures, capturing the mood of that unique view under the sun and the cloudy sky of Amboseli.
