[Leica] Bandhavgarh - Kalua

[bjq1 at mac.com (Barney Quinn)]

Jayanand,

I love the first shot. I wish I could get that relaxed!

Barney

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On Apr 7, 2010, at 11:06 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> The second installment from Bandhavgarh focuses on one of the  
> dominant males
> of the tourist area called Kalua (Blackface). He got his name  
> because he had
> more black face markings than the rest of his litter. These are  
> basically
> from two encounters that we had with him.
>
> The first time, he was relaxed when we came across him early one  
> morning:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100322_0610.jpg.html
>
> In Bandhavgarh (as in Kanha or Pench), it is possible to hire an  
> elephant,
> and track tigers inside the forest. You get very close to animals,  
> as they
> do not get spooked by an elephant - the only downsides being the top  
> down
> angle for photography, the discomfort of sitting on elephant back  
> for long
> periods and the expense! Most professional photographers, however,  
> choose
> this method, and I have made up my mind to try this for a day when I  
> am next
> in Bandhavgarh. An elephant arrived, and Kalua was forced to move:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100321_0614.jpg.html
>
> The elephant continued to follow him, till he disappeared over a  
> steep slope
> to the right of the photograph, where the elephant could not follow:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100321_0619.jpg.html
>
>
>
> The second time was when we caught him in perfect light going on a  
> walkabout
> on the slope of a hill opposite where we were parked:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100322_0472.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100322_0476.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100322_0492.jpg.html
>
> There were two elephants with photographers on his tail at this  
> point, a
> scene which Howard caught very well:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Final+Tigers/2Els_TigW.jpg.html
>
> He then decided to rest for a while:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100322_0535a.jpg.html
>
> He then got up, gave the massed tourists on the opposite slope a  
> pitying
> look and disappeared up the slope of the hill:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100322_0590.jpg.html
>
>
> Comments and criticism, as always, welcome.
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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