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Subject: [Leica] Photo: One More Tiger
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:14:49 +0530
References: <D93AA1C3-11BE-46AD-ACF3-F8F1FA0C8186@ralgo.nl> <C627562A.4DE75%mark@rabinergroup.com> <200905061938.BPV21946@rg5.comporium.net> <p06230910c627ad73d997@10.0.1.199>

There were some shots in Kaziranga which were taken at 18-35mm or so
on the Nikon 18-200VR from elephant back - where you can get real
close, and really don't need anything over 150mm:

Wild Water Buffalo:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/kaziranga/Buffaloes-2.jpg.html

Hog Deer: 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/kaziranga/Hog-Deer-2.jpg.html

Swamp Deer: 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/kaziranga/Barasingha-2.jpg.html

Rhino & Swamp Deer:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/kaziranga/Rhino-and-Deer.jpg.html

Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> 
wrote:
>> At 02:58 PM 5/6/2009, you wrote:
>>>
>>> The ultra wide wildlife specialists are all dead.
>>> Just like the number one mushroom collector expert guy.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>
>> Ultra-wide angle of lions:
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/40607394
>>
>> Luckily they were sound asleep ;-) Somewhere I have a wide angle of an
>> even more dangerous animal - a rhino. ?Can't find it right now, though.
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> Tina Manley
>> www.tinamanley.com
>
>
> All of Jayanand's marvelous tiger shots have had me looking for various
> shots from South Africa. Unfortunately, as with most visitors, I only had a
> few days of wildlife viewing.
>
> This guy wasn't asleep, but he and his two brothers had lately finished off
> a buffalo and was uninterested in moving, let alone hunting.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/various/S_Afr+Lion1.jpg.html
>
> It was quite dark; 35mm Summilux on an M6, wide open at 1/15sec.
>
> --
>
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