“You can’t come to Thailand and not photograph elephants”, somebody told me recently. Quite so. This elephant is employed in Ayutthaya, carrying tourists around the central temple complex. I never quite get over the fact that something as large and powerful as an elephant can seem so apparently friendly and docile. They really are the most improbable and fascinating creatures. The eyes are all-important in portraits of people and it seems the same is true of elephant pictures too.