[Leica] Keoladeo National Park

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Lluis, Douglas B,
Thanks for looking.

The one on the right in my photographs won quite comprehensively. Anyway,
he was the King of the Hill to start with!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Definitely Squabble 4 for me. Who won?
>
> Douglas
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <
> jayanand at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "PSM" <
> psm-1857 at googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 3:27 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Keoladeo National Park
>
>
> The next installment of photographs starts off with four shots of a pair of
>> squabbling Glossy Ibis. I was photographing something i the diametrically
>> opposite direction when I turned around and saw this presumably
>> territorial
>> squabble starting. I had no time to change the settings, so I ended up
>> with
>> a set of grossly underexposed images, but with fine, dramatic action. As
>> the Glossy Ibis is a dark, muddy reddish brown in colour, there was no
>> real
>> colour of note in the frames, so I converted the lot to B&W, and then set
>> about recovering whatever detail was possible - only the last shot is
>> processed differently, more of a silhouette:
>>
>> Squabble 1: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2087.jpg.html
>>
>> Squabble 2: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2102.jpg.html
>>
>> Squabble 3: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2103.jpg.html
>>
>> Squabble 4: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2105.jpg.html
>>
>> Next on the agenda is a Purple Sunbird in breeding plumage:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2128.jpg.html
>>
>> Two migrant geese from Central/Northern Asia - the Bar-headed Goose and
>> the
>> Greylag Goose. The former is arguably the highest flying bird in the
>> world,
>> flocks having been seen flying over Mount Everest, but what I find even
>> more amazing is that they cross the Himalayas in one go, non stop!
>>
>> Landing: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2173.jpg.html
>>
>> High Flyer: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-2047.jpg.html
>>
>> Finally, a Purple Heron keeping watch early one morning:
>>
>> Lookout: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/
>> Bharatpur/Bharatpur-20170122-1227.jpg.html
>>
>> Please see LARGE
>>
>> Criticism and comments, as ever, welcome!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
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