I am a confirmed and certifiable nutbar with a penchant for skulls, bones, blood, guts, fire and anything slightly peculiar and mostly bizarre. I also...
Love the DOF and the way you have captured the texture in the elephant’s skin.
Hard to believe that someone thought using an amputated elephant leg as an umbrella stand was a good idea, but they did, and apparently more than one of them.
Here's something I learned yesterday: In 1965, Air India airlines commissioned Salvador Dali to design an ashtray for the airlines. Dali requested an elephant as fees so the airline flew a two year old elephant from Bangalore to Geneva. After Dali lost interest, the elephant was taken to the Barcelona Zoo in 1971. Don't ask me how I stumbled upon this article: https://www.cntraveller.in/story/why-air-india-gifted-salvador-dali-an-elephant/
Hard to believe that someone thought using an amputated elephant leg as an umbrella stand was a good idea, but they did, and apparently more than one of them.