Jai Jumbo - Elephant at Work in India.

            This is Fort Kochi in Kerala very close to the new bridge that joins that island to the Willingdon Island due north and east.

Close to the bridge is an area full of saw mills on the shore. 

Kerala has wonderful light most times, Cochin in particular is a boon for photography. Then you have some days of superlative light and this was one of them. Some of the photos (already published)  of that day are in the comments below.

That was the day that I also saw an elephant engaged in doing work of arranging large wooden tree trunks in a stack. 

Photographing elephants is a tricky business as the dark hide does not light up too well in a photograph and you have to be wary and extremely careful to not let the elephant get irritated. One has seen in Kerala and Assam, enough damage caused by elephants to be cautious and and maintain a safe distance,

It is a marvelous sight to see the effortless ease with which the elephant goes about picking up the tree trunks and stacking them. What really is amazing however is the grace and finesse with which the great animal does the work. Delicate and heavy, both at once.

Jai Jumbo !
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Taken in: India / Kerala / Kochi / Thopumpady (show map)

Taken on: July 16, 2008

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