Digital Images Now Available

I have added digital downloads of all images in the 'birds of the world' and 'west and southwest landscapes' galleries on my web site (www.annsullivan.zenfolio.com). Each digital  download can be used in online publishing and costs just $2! I will be adding additional images to the digital downloads list soon. 

I also added several new images to the web site. These images are available to purchase as prints in a variety of sizes. Prints are produced and shipped by Mpix, the #1 photographer-recommended print service.

Finally, orders for 2019 wall calendars are starting to come in. Each calendar is 8-1/2x17 inches and includes a full-page, full-color image for each month. Popular subjects have included cheetahs, elephants, birds, big cats and landscapes. I will make a unique calendar just for you. Cost is $24 each, shipping within the US included. Proceeds are donated to the Elephant Crisis Fund, which funds projects in 32 countries designed to put an end to poaching and to stop the trafficking and demand for ivory. www.elephantcrisisfund.org

Time to Eat

This elephant was photographed in Tanzania while chowing down on some tasty grass. Elephants can eat between 200 and 600 pounds of vegetation every day. They drink an average of 50 gallons of water each day, about the same amount as a typical bathtub holds. The elephant digestive system isn't very efficient, so only about 40 percent of the food they consume is actually digested. Elephants are herbivores. They will eat grasses, fruits, vegetables, small plants, bushes, twigs and tree bark.

A Helping Hand

I recently rediscovered this touching photo of one of the baby orphan elephants and a keeper at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, Kenya.

I so look forward to visiting this amazing place whenever I am in Nairobi. As a sponsor of three orphans, I get to attend the daily evening session when the babies are brought to their stockades after spending the day in the nearby forest. One of the keepers sleeps in the stockade with a different orphan each night to provide a sense of security to the orphans, most of which have been badly traumatized by watching their families die at the hands of poachers.

You can sponsor an orphan for only $50/year. Details are at www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org.

A Helping Hand

An orphan elephant gets a helping hand from a caregiver at Nairobi's David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

The center runs a center for orphanaed baby elephants, usually after their mothers were murdered by poachers in Kenya. The babies are provided with special milk and emotional support to help them recover from the trauma of watching their mothers, and sometimes their entire family, gunned down for their ivory. The DSWT is the most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world and one of the pioneering conservation organizations for wildlife and habitat protection in East Africa.

This photo was taken during my 2016 visit to the orphanage during the noon feeding, which is open to the public. The Nairobi center typicalls has around 35 orphans in residence. Once they are considered ready, they are transferred to one of the Trust's reintegration centers, where the orphans can interact with wild elephants, learning proper elephant behavior. Some of the ex-orphans have returned to the reintegration centers to show off their newborn calves. The Trust has so far raised some 150 calves and released them into their natural habitat.

I am sponsoring three orphans. If you want to get involved by sponsoring a baby elephant, you can do so for only $50/year.

www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org