Tlou Ledimo by wildlife artist John Banovich, available from Snow Goose Gallery.

 

"Tlou Ledimo" means Elephant Storm in Tswana (language of the local people of Botswana) "I have stood, motionless as 12,ooo pounds of raging bull comes towards you. But with most Bull Elephant charges, it merely is a bluff. And often their bluff includes an enormous amount of theatre, like kicking up mud and debris. When this massive bull, near the Kwai river in Botswana, finally stopped less than 15 feet away, I was covered in mud, grass and water...... the result of being in "the eye of the elephant storm." John Banovich.

 

Released spring 2011