Wild animals professional photographer Will Burrard-Lucas had an incredible experience fulfilling the ‘Queen of Elephants,’ Also Known As F_MU1 in Tsavo, Kenya in the final years of her life.
Burrard-Lucas was already embarking on a task with the Tsavo trust fund photographing elephants in the area of Tsavo.
While he was studying the area, he discovered F_MU1 Also Known As the Queen of Elephants. He was informed she has a mild character and also is a really marvelous creature.
After a search enduring numerous days, they lastly located her, right here is how he remembers it:
” Over the shrubs I beholded an elephant’s back and seconds later she marched right into the open. I was amazed. F_MU1 was skinny and old however she strode ahead with magnificent elegance. Her tusks were so long that they scuffed the ground in front of her. She was like a relic from a past period.”
They invested the whole day with her, she led them to her neighborhood tavern where she patiently waited her resort to shower.
Every photo caught the queen’s real grandeur, every crease representing a success of time versus the threats of poaching, droughts and other natural risks, she made it this much.
Sadly, she passed away just weeks after Burrard-Lucas captured these images, more than likely because of natural reasons. Luckily, these images immortalize her.
She has actually made the cover for Burrard Lucas’s book, Land of Giants, which covers a number of years of elephant living approximately Tvaso.
Her lengthy and flourishing life is absolutely a testament to the hard work that the Tsavo Trust Fund and also the Kenyan Wildlife Solutions placed in to protect these marvelous animals.
Burrard Lucas recalls the experience, “as a wild animals photographer, a subject like F_MU1 is incredibly rare; a creature that is unique– possibly one of the most amazing of her kind– as well as yet a pet that couple of have photographed prior to. The time I invested with her was a genuine advantage.”
You can check out even more regarding his experience with this African elephant on his blog.
The outcome is Land of Giants, a publication filled with images of the big tusk elephants residing in Tsavo.
