Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Beautifull pictures of a marvellous site. Cedric 2013/3/21 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>: > Frank, Jim, Douglas, Richard, Luis, Ric > Thanks for looking. Amboseli is renowned for its elephants - there are > thousands here in huge herds of 50+ animals, so my pano is a sparsely > populated one! The problem is that most of the big herds pass in front of > Mount Kilimanjaro in the late morning (after 10.30 am) and again in the > evenings, but the peak/crater of the mountain is usually covered in clouds > by 9 am, so it is a Catch 22 situation! > Cheers > Jayanand > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:55 PM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote: > >> WOW! >> >> BEAUTIFUL! >> >> ric >> >> >> On Mar 21, 2013, at 2:58 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > The famous view of Mount Kilimanjaro from Amboseli National Park, Kenya >> > - >> > in a panorama of 8 frames stitched together. >> > >> > If you really want to be shocked, google for past images from similar >> > viewpoints, and see how little snow there is nowadays. This might be the >> > future death knell for the East African grasslands, as all the major >> rivers >> > that flow through the area are dependent on snow melt from Kilimanjaro. >> > >> > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Panoramas/EA2013/Amboseli_20130228_01509C.jpg.html >> > >> > Please see LARGE (Large is a 3.5MB file) >> > >> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome >> > >> > Cheers >> > Jayanand >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information