[Leica] Pantanal

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Ric, Luis
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:40 AM, lluisripollphotography <
lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fantastic images Jayanand! they shall be viewed large!
>
> This image is particularly great
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/untitled-20160813-3937.jpg.html>
>
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
>
> > El 27 ag 2016, a les 19:09, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> va
> escriure:
> >
> > 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!
> >
> > Here are four looks at the majestic cat:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/Pantanal-20160812-2529.jpg.html
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/Pantanal-20160812-2580.jpg.html
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/Pantanal-20160812-2594.jpg.html
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/Pantanal-20160812-2736.jpg.html
> >
> > Please see LARGE
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome!
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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