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| Jelle shooting a tiger, while sitting on top af
an elephant... It's amazing how close you can actually get... On especially trained elephants you get right into the action. Although the elephant sometimes gets a bit nervous (rumbling...you feel it in your stomach) we manage to get really close, like ten metres or so. Like this we’ve seen and photographed several tigers. Most of them ignore the elephant. They have no fear for it whatsoever, and the humans on top of the elephant are basically a snack on an animal too big to eat… Apart from the excitement of the chance coming really close to wild tigers, an elephant-ride in the Indian jungle is a special experience. The movement and sound of the elephant, combined with the smell of it and the surrounding jungle…it’s like meditation. You can almost forget that there’s maybe a predator like a tiger round the corner… We use the bushhawk shoulder-stock while shooting with the big lenses from elephant-back. (pictures taken with Canon A1 and 28mm and Canon T90 with 300mm 2.8L lens, Kanha NP, India 1998) |
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