Dream Trip 2009 has been up two months and is still going strong, with almost 11,000 entries so far. For inspiration for your own entry, and a chance to win a $25,000 vacation to wherever you choose, read our take on a submission that caught our eye:

Safari photographers often try to get the ultimate shot: the perfectly framed beast in its wild environment on the veld--with no evidence of human surroundings. By this measure, Dream Trip entrant erinnoelle's Dream Trip entry entitled Investigative Elephant falls short: One of erinnoelle's fellow occupants of the safari jeep takes up a third of the frame. But in this case, the human figure gives the image a sense of scale, movement, and immediacy.

"We were traveling through Tanzania's Tarangire National Park, and slowed when we saw a baby elephant dawdling along behind a small herd," writes erinnoelle. "Mama wasn't too far off: She walked toward us, ears flapped wide in part to show us her size. Human or elephant, we're all fiercely protective of our kids."

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