A close knit family

Gallery: WildlifePosted November 18, 2010761 views17 comments

Indian Elephant family on the jungle track.
This image belongs to the film era, it was 'Highly honorable winner' in Natures Best 2005, when I participated for the first time.
Thank you so much for your kind attention & views!
Canon Film body, Fujichrome, 70-200 mm lens.
Jagdeep Rajput

Comments

17 comments

Comment posted by Carol Nichols on November 18, 2010 at 11:35 AM

Oh my Jagdeep. What a wonderful family portrait.

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on November 18, 2010 at 1:03 PM

I suppose one could quibble about the out of focus green grasses, but the strength of the composition makes that a very, very minor nit. Super capture, well seen.

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Comment posted by Sandipan Dutta on November 19, 2010 at 3:47 AM

Beautiful family portrait !!!

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Comment posted by Brad Hill on November 19, 2010 at 9:10 AM

Hi Jagdeep,

I really like this one - it really put a huge smile on my face! Tight cropping works perfectly here for me - one of my favourite (if not my absolute favourite) elephant images of all time (wish it was mine!

). In a perfect world I could live without those very out-of-focus grasses overlapping the smallest elephant's head and mouth region, but to be honest I really didn't notice them until about my 3rd pass over the image (I was still too busy smiling!).

Love it...thanks for sharing it...

Cheers...

Brad

Registered on May 29, 2007, 431 Posts, 6061 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Teller on November 19, 2010 at 12:27 PM

Very good image. I really like the comp. You captured the family feeling very well.

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Comment posted by Sally King on November 19, 2010 at 7:58 PM

I agree with Carol. A wonderful family portrait.

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Comment posted by Jorne de Bruin on November 20, 2010 at 8:15 AM

This is fantastic, love the family portrait here with some great interaction going on! Superb!

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Comment posted by Richard Tomalty on November 20, 2010 at 5:25 PM

What a lovely domestic scene.
Cheers
RickT

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Comment posted by Keshav Kumar on November 21, 2010 at 8:48 AM

To me it is as good as it can get. Lovely image. My only wish would be that you could crop it a tad tighter than what is already done. Probably just taking away the part with your signature on the larger image would do for my taste.

But fabulous and a true deserving image for a rightful award!

Registered on June 3, 2008, 16 Posts, 42 Comments

Comment posted by Dan Walters on November 21, 2010 at 2:44 PM

Great comp! Love the position of the elephants and the upturned trunk on one of the youngsters.

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Comment posted by James Campbell on November 22, 2010 at 2:44 AM

Stunning! Its all been said really, but the tight comp, family feel and the little ones open mouth all work together perfectly

Registered on January 12, 2009, 48 Posts, 377 Comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on November 24, 2010 at 11:56 AM

Jagdeep - missed this since I've been away this week -
Congrats on a great EP! lovely!!

Sandy

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Comment posted by Monica Siri on November 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM

A great image, Jagdeep. Congrats on EP.

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Comment posted by Angela McCain on November 24, 2010 at 10:32 PM

Lovely intimate portrait. Well done.

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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on November 25, 2010 at 6:38 AM

Thanks friends!
I'm touched!
Jagdeep Rajput

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Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on November 26, 2010 at 11:40 AM

I missed this Jagdeep; a truly adorable image!

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Comment posted by Danny Green on December 2, 2010 at 10:24 AM

Hello Jagdeep

How are you, its been a while since I have been around and I have just noticed this wonderful image of Elephant family life, upto your usual very high standards. I love it.

Danny

Registered on November 27, 2005, 70 Posts, 313 Comments