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Subject: [Leica] Big Cats
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:10:20 -0500 (CDT)

Very nice set Jayanand.  Always like your African photos.

Cheers,
Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>, "PSM" <psm1857 at 
googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 5:15:21 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [Leica] Big Cats

Some of the shots of Big Cats - lions and leopards were thin on the ground,
but Cheetahs were plentiful - also helped by the fact that the latter are
very active by the day, mainly because lions and hyenas are not - much less
chance of having their kill stolen.

To start with a lioness behaving like any member of the cat family:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ol_Pejeta_20130315_09874.jpg.html

We only saw only one leopard the whole trip, and that too late in the
evening at dusk on the first day out at Ndutu. Here are a couple of
studies, taken with a big telephoto married to a teleconverter, wide open
at ISO6400:

Yawn:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130302_04312.jpg.html

Descent:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130302_04319.jpg.html

However, the biggest sustained interest of our trip were Cheetahs, of which
we saw more than 20, including a lot of playful cubs. Here are some shots
to start things off:

Yawns are contagious even for male cheetahs:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130304_06020.jpg.html

The late evening kill:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130304_06115.jpg.html

A mother and two cubs slaking their thirst:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130304_05637-Edit.jpg.html

Two cubs playing on a tree:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130306_06666-Edit.jpg.html

A downpour is no deterrent for energetic cubs:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130306_07521.jpg.html

Please see LARGE

Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.

Cheers
Jayanand

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