Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jayanand, I?ve missed this post, another outstanding photo documentary about the Indian magnificent Parks! I like very much yuour picture ?Langur? because it is a different and amazing approach to your subjects, I like very much too the Close Up 2. However all the set is a great work and every image is priceless! Cheers Lluis > El 3 gen 2024, a les 4:12, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> va escriure: > > Douglas, > > Thanks for looking. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 6:55?AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > >> While the tiger shots are great, Jayanand, I find the composition of the >> langur really appealing. With the backstory, your panorama is quite >> poignant, as us Irish suffered clearances too, but under the English, >> not our own countrymen. But, as long as the world spins, it will keep on >> happening as we're currently seeing. >> >> Douglas >> >> >> >> >> On 01/01/2024 06:25, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: >>> *Wishing all members of LUG, PSM and MNS a happy, fruitful and >> productive >>> 2024.* >>> >>> Bandhavgarh is arguably the most tiger focused national park in India, >> the >>> guides and drivers generally have to be told, quite firmly, to stop for >>> other flora and fauna as well. >>> >>> So, between tigers here is a short interlude: >>> >>> Gaur: >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-037-Edit.jpg.html >>> >>> Langur: >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-1049-Enhanced-NR.jpg.html >>> >>> Lesser Adjutant Stork: >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-1131-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-1155-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html >>> >>> In the preceding mail, I had shared photographs of a female tigress >> called >>> Katiba. Not very long after we lost track of her, while we were still in >>> Khitauli zone, the alarm calls started ringing out again, and we saw a >>> handsome male tiger moving through the forest. Deducting that he was >> making >>> for a waterhole nearby, we went and took a pole position there. Sure >>> enough, shortly afterward, he broke cover and started loping down a slope >>> to the water: >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-670-Edit.jpg.html >>> >>> Once there, he looked at the water for a few seconds: >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-686-Edit.jpg.html >>> >>> Then he started drinking, and continued for a long time: >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-836-Edit_001.jpg.html >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1282-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1314-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html >>> >>> As he finished, I took an environmental portrait: >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-905-Edit.jpg.html >>> >>> He then spent a few minutes cooling off in the pond: >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1471-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html >>> >>> After which he left the waterbody on the far side: >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1613-Edit.jpg.html >>> >>> Lastly, he marked a tree, and then disappeared into the thicket: >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1643-Edit.jpg.html >>> >>> Finally here are two random offerings to close out the trip. The first >> one >>> is a fellow tourist capturing memories of Katiba: >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-511-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html >>> >>> Lastly, here is a seven shot panorama of a misty morning in Bandhavgarh. >>> These open grasslands were once villages and the cultivated lands that >>> surrounded them - these have been relocated outside the national park >> some >>> time ago, but not very successfully, as there is a lot of resentment >> still >>> simmering among these villagers about being robbed of their hereditary >>> lands: >>> >>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-006-Enhanced-NR-EditCropped.jpg.html >>> >>> Please see LARGE. >>> >>> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jayanand >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information