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Subject: [Leica] Bandhavgarh/Kanha
From: rclompus at mac.com (Richard Clompus)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 09:45:56 -0400
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Jayanand, thanks for sharing.  It takes a bit of courage to be in the 
presence of this wildlife.  It helps you appreciate the predator/prey 
relationship these creatures face very day.  

Stay healthy & Be well,
Richard

Richard Clompus
Virginia

> On May 18, 2022, at 12:05 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> 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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