Artwork description:

An elephant is throwing dust over itself with its trunk on a bare earth slope with trees in the background under a blue sky. It has mud stains on its trunk, and the dust is exploding in a cloud against its wrinkled grey skin. Shot with a Nikon D810 in Chobe National Park in Botswana in April 2016.
ISO 140, 85mm, f/8, 1/500

This image was National Geographic's Photo of the Day on 9 October 2017 and runner-up in The Daily Telegraph's weekly Big Picture competition.

Materials used:

Paper on wooden mount in wooden frame

Tags:

#loxodonta africana #bush elephant #ihaha #blue #nature #trees #sky #wildlife #grey #animals #blue sky #sunshine #sunlight #sunny #elephant #africa #earth #african #hillside #bath #trunk #slope #big five #african elephant #mammal #dust #bare #botswana #tusks #chobe #wrinkled #african bush elephant