Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Excellent set - your compositions are among the best too - particularly Mother's love and morning has broken Amiti?s de Metz Philippe Le 30 mars 12 ? 15:52, Jayanand Govindaraj a ?crit : > Last posting of photographs for a week at least - Neela & I are off > to join > Howard & Esther Cummer for a week of tiger watching (hopefully) at > Ranthambhore National Park. > > The subject here is the lion pride. In Ndutu at this time of the > year there > is such an abundance of food that no predator generally goes hungry > - and > in lion prides that leaves a tremendous amount of time for social > activity. > These are the best fed lions and lionesses that I have seen in the > wild, > sleek and glowing with health, and the prides were large and full of > cubs > of all ages and sizes. This set deals with the family, and more > particularly with the mother-child (or more accurately the pride > lionesses > and the cubs) relationship - which was so tender and loving that it > was > wonderful to see. > > Family Meal: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120304_05587.jpg.html > > Mother's Love: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120304_06208.jpg.html > > The cubs tried to suckle once too often and got this telling off: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120304_06222.jpg.html > > There always seemed to be a great competition to suckle: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120305_07021.jpg.html > > Contentment: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120305_07045.jpg.html > > Loving Lick (a big one!): > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120307_08302.jpg.html > > Very young cubs (one month or so old) and their mothers in the early > morning sun - in a typical African landscape: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120308_08583.jpg.html > > Please see large. > > Comments and Criticism, as ever, welcome. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information