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Subject: [Leica] Young Male Tiger Bandhavgarh
From: passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:49:42 -0400
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That one of the crowd of jeeps reminds me of Don DeLillo's concept in his
novel White Noise: the most photographed barn in America.  Go there and see
photographers gathered all around it shooting it.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:10 AM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> We are getting near the end of my Odyssey through Tiger land -but not quite
> finished.
> Here is a folder of five photos of a Young Male Tiger that we spotted,
> along with a lot of other jeeps, on a late afternoon. He was resting
> in the long grass by the jeep path and when he started to move
> all the jeeps jockeyed for position. It was like a Le Mans start
> in reverse!
> Here are the photos - taken with the Telyt 400 on the D700.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/YMT+Bandhavgarh/
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yd3wb92
>
>
> In the heat of photographing it was hard to remember to
> push the Telyt lens barrel away from you as the tiger
> moved closer so I had more out of focus images than
> with the Nikkor 300 but the ones that were sharp were
> really sharp.
> C&C always welcome.
> Cheers
> Howard
>
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