Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/28

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Subject: [Leica] Lion in the sunrise
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:42:39 +1000
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That's quite a portrait, Howard!


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 28 March 2014 23:51, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> More from the sunrise on the 11th day of our safari. Turning around from
> looking at the moon set and the gazelles,
> there was a lion lying on the grass with the sun rising behind him. We
> moved the jeep to line up the sun and the lion and this was
> the result:
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Tanza2014/LionsunriseW.jpg.html
> >
>
> Since in Ndutu the jeeps can drive anywhere we repositioned to get a bit
> closer (but remain a respectful distance) and took this side light closeup:
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Tanza2014/LiomStareDay11.jpg.html
> >
>
> I liked the morning shoots not only for the light but for the fact that in
> the very early morning the flies didn't seem as plentiful. I have lots of
> close ups of animals with flies on their faces and I prefer this clean 
> shot.
>
> Please look large. C&C always welcome.
>
> Howard
>
>
>
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