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I have maintained an Instagram account since its very beginnings in October 2010. It began as a personal account then became what it is today. I post most weeks. You can visit my Instagram at @davidlloyd.

View fullsize Amboseli Tuskers We are aware of six named super-tuskers at Amboseli. This week we were privileged to have met three of them. This is Michael. At 34 years of age he is in his prime of life. An elephant is considered to have reached super-tusker statu
View fullsize Timeless Kenya 2018
View fullsize Kaziranga Recognising World Elephant Day India 2024 #worldelephantday
View fullsize Matriarchal I took this one in 2010, long before today’s relative commonality of ground level elephant pictures. 15 years ago there were no sideless vehicles or flip out screens so the only option really was to hang a camera upside down out of
View fullsize An Acquired Taste One is Morani, the other I think is Sikio. These two were half of the Four Musketeers, the dominant coalition of a generation ago, the other half being Scar and Hunter. Right on sunset these two began scrabbling at a hole in the gro
View fullsize Any Colour You Like The second one was taken SOOC with the white balance set to 3000K. The first one was afterwards after Lightroom.
View fullsize Time Out This is another composition which had been on my ‘vision list’ for a long time. As you can imagine the opportunity doesn’t present itself too often. Ticking off this list is always most satisfying. Thankfully the chimpanzee
View fullsize Ribeye This is a picture I have long asked for. Others have it, but I wanted one for my own. On this occasion one of the lionesses started behind the rib cage of a fallen buffalo. A hole appeared so we repositioned for a cleaner angle. The hole grew
View fullsize A United Front I couldn’t put my camera low because we didn’t know who they were, because we didn’t know what they might do. So we played safe. Anyway, the act of getting lower likely meant missing this picture as all 4 eyes would h
View fullsize Run for your life This may be my most satisfying slow shutter speed picture. It is also one of my first, taken in 2013. I didn’t use neutral density filters then, so I was forced to use apertures like f-22 to achieve the slow speeds required. W
View fullsize Here Comes Rain Featuring an appropriately named umbrella tree Kenya March 2022
View fullsize Rising Star Here is one of five young males who resided at Rekero in 2015. They eventually split and I lost track of them after that. I think one or two hung around but the others found new territories. This one though presented himself on a mound wh