[Leica] Keoladeo National Park

[Jim Nichols]

Great shots, Jayanand.  Your B&W work came out quite well. You really 
nailed the focus with the Purple Heron.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 1/30/2017 9:27 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> 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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