I’m on vacation until July 23 when I guide my last safari of the year in Tanzania. Meanwhile, here are some of my favorite photos taken on my safaris during the last 39 years. This wasn’t really so long ago, less than a decade ago outside Amboseli National Park (in Kenya) on the Tanzanian side of the border. It marks a significant change in the wildlife, tourism and overall environment of East Africa: the start of “too many elephants.” That doesn’t necessarily mean more ele than ever before, just that as East Africa moves into the modern world, scenes like this are harbingers of great difficulty, social and ecological.