Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/12/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, Thanks for looking. Yes, you could really get close - there was "not closer than 6 feet limit"! ? Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 5:36 PM Howard Cummer via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Hi Jayanand, > A great series - the more remarkable for having been shot with the 70 - > 200 f4.0 zoom. > You were able to get really close!! Thanks for sharing. > Cheers > Howard > > Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 22:35:53 +0530 > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com <mailto:jayanand at > gmail.com>> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org <mailto:lug at > leica-users.org>>, > PSM > <psm-1857 at googlegroups.com <mailto:psm-1857 at > googlegroups.com>> > Subject: [Leica] Sea Lions and Fur Seals > > A start to the photographs of our recent trip to the Galapagos with the > Galapagos Sea Lion and closely related Galapagos Fur Seal. The beauty of > animals there is you really can get in very close, so generally it is a > case of our avoiding the animals instead of the other way round, as is the > case in most other nature areas. This also means that we can carry shorter > and lighter lenses while hiking, greatly easing the burden! > > We start with the Galapagos Sea Lion. Firstly, two photographs of a new > born Galapagos Sea Lion pup with its mother. Our experienced > Naturalist/Guide, Walter Perez, estimated that it was, at most, an hour > old. In fact the placenta/umbilical cord was lying close by: > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >