Dry bushveld in the late season — Zimbabwe, November 2014

Zimbabwe · November 2014 · Photo-essay

Late-season bulls.

A short hunt at the end of the 2014 season. Dust by mid-morning, heat by nine, and a bull whose tusks measured twenty-one-and-a-half inches in circumference at the lip — taken with the .500 MDM.

Country
Zimbabwe
Dates
Late November 2014
Quarry
One bull elephant
Rifle
Winchester .500 MDM

Photo-essay in preparation — images being prepared for the local pipeline

What will be published here

The frames.

  1. 01 Camp in the dry — brown grass, blue sky, a single shade tree
  2. 02 First morning tracks on the sand road
  3. 03 Following an old bull down a dry riverbed
  4. 04 The approach — afternoon wind, a single thicket, one step in
  5. 05 The bull down — 21.5-inch circumference at the lip, thick to the tip
  6. 06 The trackers and the PH — a quiet set of handshakes
  7. 07 Meat recovery with the nearest village
  8. 08 Last light, last day, the cruiser headed home

The layout below each frame follows the same editorial treatment as the Namibia 2014 journal — large image, short honest paragraph, no inflation. Come back when the images are up, or browse the existing archive from the Namibia seasons.