[Leica] Pantanal

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

A majestic animal, for sure.  And your first shot shows how well she 
blends into the foliage.

Congratulations, and thanks for sharing.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/27/2016 12:09 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> Just returned from the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical freshwater
> wetlands in Brazil spanning the Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul
> provinces, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is a curious place. Though
> we imagine the Brazilian ecosystem to be very rich and bursting with life,
> in truth vast tracts of it, like the Pantanal, have soil which is
> nutritionally poor. Therefore the land cannot sustain too many mammals,
> which are scarce and rare, but have resulted in an explosive variety of
> birds who feed on the abundant food in the canopy. I had gone to see and
> photograph the normally shy, reclusive and very secretive Jaguars, because
> a small accessible population of around 25 had got used to humans, and
> would show themselves, practically the only place in the world where this
> is possible. We were lucky that we got one early, at close quarters, on the
> banks of an oxbow lake, in a place called Rio Claro, where we had gone to
> photograph birds, and where jaguars are generally never to be seen. We saw
> a few capybara (the world's largest rodent, the size of a well fed pig)
> squealing and frantically swimming across the lake, and when we
> investigated, there she was! In fact, the surprise at seeing a jaguar at
> this place was so great that I forgot to change my settings from those I
> was using to photograph diving/flying White-necked Heron, and so all of
> these are at 1/3200+ @ f8 at ISO 3200, with an EV of -1.67 stops!
>
> Here are four looks at the majestic cat:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160812-2529.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160812-2580.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160812-2594.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160812-2736.jpg.html
>
> Please see LARGE
>
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome!
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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