Baby Elephant 8x10 Print

This photographic print by oceloteyes is 8x10" in size and is retail priced at $20. Custom sizes also available, on paper or canvas.

This baby elephant is just too adorable! A large herd of elephants came to drink at a waterhole in Etosha National Park (Namibia), and I watched them for hours, absolutely mesmerized. Of course, the waterhole was only small, too small for 50 elephants to fit into all at once - so some family groups wandered off to give others a chance to drink... Baby elephants were running about everywhere.

When this little one missed the moment when his mother wandered off a short distance, and noticed her leaving - he trumpeted, trunk up in the air, tail swishing around, and ran after her as fast as he could to round her up and lead her back to the waterhole again!


I support the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust with 10% of sales from all my art/photographs involving African Elephants. The DSWT rescue baby elephants (and rhinos, and other animals) who have been orphaned because of poaching, or have lost their family herds some way or another. These babies grow up in the care of humans, but eventually learn to become wild elephants again and re-integrate into the wild, and go on to have families and babies of their own. For fundraising they run a digital fostering program, which allows you to 'foster' an orphan and get photos and emails about their progress. My family fosters three elephant babies - Sities, Suguta, and Sabachi. You can also visit the DSWT facebook page here.


I donate 10% of the retail price ($2 in this case) from any of African Elephant images to the DSWT. My photographs are of wild elephants with families - so I want to support the orphaned elephants without families.

Baby Elephant Bookmark by oceloteyes

Cute baby elephants can make anyone smile! This little baby adorning a bookmark by oceloteyes was busy playing in the dust with his friend - when his mother walked a few meters away, and the baby ellie suddenly noticed she wasn't next to him. He ran over to her, trunk trumpeting, tail waving, "Mommy wait for meeee!" He only had to run 10 meters or so but he made such a show of it! :) I have literally thousands of elephant photographs from my trip to Etosha National Park in Namibia last year, but if I had to choose a favorite shot, this is it.

As a member of Team EFA I donate a percentage to the animal charities of the month. I'm also a member of QLD Wildlife Artists Society here in Australia, I exhibit paintings regularly with them to raise awareness of conservation and appreciation of our wonderful wildlife. Recently I participated in Creating For Conservation, an art exhibition in South Australia - I donated one of my paintings, which sold and raised over $300 for Painted Dog Conservation Inc.

My elephant images are very special, though: 10% from sales of elephant images (or $1 from my bookmarks featuring elephants) goes to The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. They are an amazing, dedicated organization of people that rescue baby elephants and rhinos who are orphaned - usually through human/elephant conflict or poaching. They then hand-raise them and return them to the wild, where previous orphans who have been rehabilitated teach the young ones how to be wild elephants!

My images of elephants are all happy wild elephants with families, living free in a protected area in Namibia - so I use my images to help elephants who have lost their families, and found a human family to take care of them. My family's foster elephants at the DSWT are baby Sities, Suguta, and Sabachi.

A Little Dragon Print by oceloteyes

This print of a painting by oceloteyes is of an Eastern Water Dragon. These gorgeous wild Australian lizards certainly look like dragons - and I think these little guys think they are dragons! If only they were a little bit bigger... They try to look fierce, but they're also curious, cute, and all-around incredible. These reptiles are well-known to many Australians, and the reference photo for this one was taken in the South Bank parklands in Brisbane - yes, there be dragons right in the middle of the city!

The ferns and the log came from my backyard. (I don't have water dragons in my backyard, so I combined different elements to create the painting. I do have a friendly resident backyard python - but that's another reptile story...)

I donate 10% from all sales of my artworks, to animal charities.

Aside from EFA, I'm also an exhibiting member of the Queensland Wildlife Artists Society, which promotes the study, appreciation, and conservation of wildlife through art, specifically relating to Australia's unique species. (The original Water Dragon painting was first exhibited at one of our exhibitions at Australia Zoo this year - where a percentage of art sales went to support the Wildlife Warriors Animal Hospital.)

I also foster a baby elephant, Sities, at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya - they do incredible work in rescuing orphaned elephants and rhinos, and I'm happy to support them.
At home, we've got a rescue dog, Charlie, whom we adopted from the QLD RSPCA. :)