[Leica] Sea Lions and Fur Seals

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Howard,
Thanks for looking. Yes, you could really get close - there was "not closer
than 6 feet limit"! 😊

Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 5:36 PM Howard Cummer via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Hi Jayanand,
> A great series - the more remarkable for having been shot with the 70 -
> 200 f4.0 zoom.
> You were able to get really close!! Thanks for sharing.
> Cheers
> Howard
>
> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 22:35:53 +0530
> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com <mailto:jayanand at gmail.com>>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org <mailto:lug at leica-users.org>>,
> PSM
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> Subject: [Leica] Sea Lions and Fur Seals
>
> A start to the photographs of our recent trip to the Galapagos with the
> Galapagos Sea Lion and closely related Galapagos Fur Seal. The beauty of
> animals there is you really can get in very close, so generally it is a
> case of our avoiding the animals instead of the other way round, as is the
> case in most other nature areas. This also means that we can carry shorter
> and lighter lenses while hiking, greatly easing the burden!
>
> We start with the Galapagos Sea Lion. Firstly, two photographs of a new
> born Galapagos Sea Lion pup with its mother. Our experienced
> Naturalist/Guide, Walter Perez, estimated that it was, at most, an hour
> old. In fact the placenta/umbilical cord was lying close by:
>
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