[Leica] Pantanal

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> On Aug 31, 2016, at 1:15 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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> Beautiful animal, beautifully photographed.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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>> On 27 Aug 2016, at 19:09, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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!
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>> Here are four looks at the majestic cat:
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160812-2529.jpg.html
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160812-2580.jpg.html
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160812-2594.jpg.html
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Pantanal/Pantanal-20160812-2736.jpg.html
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>> Please see LARGE
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>> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome!
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>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
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