He came crashing through the bushes, only ten feet away from our vehicle. He was one of the largest elephants we saw in Africa, and I wanted my picture to say that. I used my frame to maximize scale by pressuring him on all four sides with my frame. He is so large, and so close, that he seems to be bursting through the confines of this image. He is virtually enveloped in bushes -- a form of abstraction that makes him seem larger still. The only breathing room I left in the shot is the tiny bit of blue sky running just under the top edge of my frame -- enough space for a bit of tension to flow between the top of the picture and his shoulder.