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Subject: [Leica] Bandhavgarh/Kanha
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 16:33:29 +0530
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Douglas,
Thanks for looking.

Cannot get off the vehicle except in a couple of strongly fenced enclosures
with toilets, with the likes of Big Boy around, though I doubt that a tiger
would do anything to a human being on foot, unless it was a man eater.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 1:55 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Great shots, Jayanand. Not a place to go for a gentle stroll - not with
> "Big Boy" hiding in the long grass. That camera (and your shutter
> finger) performs very well!
> Douglas
>
> On 18/05/2022 05:05, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> > The second and final instalment of my photographs from my trip last month
> > to Bandhavgarh and Kanha National Parks.
> >
> > To start with, another perspective on a Crested Serpent Eagle devouring
> its
> > prey (the same scene as the previous frame), which really shows how
> moving
> > our position, just a few metres one way or the other, while
> photographing,
> > drastically changes the impact and atmosphere of the shot:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kanha/Kanha-20220427-099-2-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > Next is a photo of, IMHO, the true core species of the Kanha landscape,
> and
> > a species that was rescued from the very brink of extinction, a success
> > story for conservation in India, the Barasingha (literally "Twelve Tined
> > Horn''). This is a young male with horns that are not full size as yet:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kanha/Kanha-20220427-099-2-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > A Dhole, or Indian Wild Dog, carrying away a portion of a Chital kill:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kanha/Kanha-20220425-202-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > A typical bandhavgarh vista:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kanha/Bandhavgarh-20220421-013-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > Tiger cubs at Bandhavgarh:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kanha/Bandhavgarh-20220421-062-Edit+copy.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kanha/Bandhavgarh-20220422-367-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kanha/Bandhavgarh-20220422-430-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > A huge male:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kanha/Kanha-20220426-674-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > I finish with two photographs of a male taken very late into the evening
> > after sunset at ISO12800, which led to an impressionistic, painterly
> effect
> > without the use of any dedicated painting action, or software:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kanha/Kanha-20220425-1710-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kanha/Kanha-20220425-346-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > Please see Large.
> >
> > Comments and Criticism, as ever, welcome
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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In reply to: Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Bandhavgarh/Kanha)
Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] Bandhavgarh/Kanha)