Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/26

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Subject: [Leica] Masai Mara
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:25:26 +0200
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Jayanand,

The three Sunset pictures are magnificient, absolutely wonderful, my  
favorite would be the first, but all thre are extra!. I find very  
interesting the Serval, it lookds to me very similar to a race of cats  
that as far as I know they are only in Spain, they are wild cats and  
bigger than the domestic ones, "El gato montes":

<http://www.google.com/search?q=el+gato+montes&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=pJaoTsfbC4Ou8gOiue3MDw&ved=0CDgQsAQ&biw=1453&bih=1048
 
 >

cheers
Lluis


El 26/10/2011, a las 14:46, Jayanand Govindaraj escribi?:

> I am back home after a week at Mumbai, and got a little more
> processing done of some more shots from our trip to Kenya in
> September.
>
> The first one is another highlight of the trip for me - a daytime
> sighting of the elusive Serval, a beautiful medium sized cat - I had
> had a couple of fleeting sightings before, usually in awful light
> after dusk, but this was the first time I could photograph the animal.
> It was obviously hunting, and though we hoped to catch it pouncing on
> its small prey, it was not to be. However, it sat for a portrait:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110919_1910Maraa.jpg.html
>
> The next three are dusk/sunset shots. The first one is my version of a
> scene of which Howard and Alastair have already posted their shots:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110920_2422Maraa.jpg.html
>
> Zebra Sunset: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110920_2464Maraa.jpg.html
>
> Topi Sunset: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110920_2475Maraa.jpg.html
>
> Comments and Criticism, as ever, welcome!
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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