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Subject: [Leica] doug herr, check out photograph # 11
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:18:13 +0530
References: <3e7573d40912171643j4e0a4a96he1c621d825a33443@mail.gmail.com> <1B47DD76-D4D9-427D-A0CE-6656DDBE0BD9@bex.net>

They are being careful in #22, because the tusker can lay waste to the
pride. No chance they will go anywhere near him with aggressive intent!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> #11 was a pretty dramatic photo, but I like #22 also for its macabre
> ominousness. Every last lion sizing up the tusker while casually lapping
> water.
>
> Wonderful black humor. Reminds me of a Gary Larson "Far Side" cartoon, many
> of which anthropomorphize animals, elephants being favorite characters and
> predation a popular topic. The animals often have working-guy and
> suburban-housewife names.
>
> Shall we have a caption-writing contest?
> "Murray, you circle around around to the left, Blanche goes right, and the
> rest of us just keep eye contact with the big guy..."
>
> ?howard
>
>
> On Dec 17, 2009, at 7:43 PM, leo wesson wrote:
>
> >
> http://www.stevebloomphoto.com./portfolios/animals/conflict/slideshow.html
>
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In reply to: Message from leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson) ([Leica] doug herr, check out photograph # 11)
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