[Leica] Photos of Kaziranga

[jmaddox01 at suddenlink.net (Jack Maddox)]

Jayanand,

An outstanding series of photos and very educational. Thanks for sharing 
them.

Jack

Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> I have just returned from Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, a 
> World
> Heritage Site, in the state of Assam in the North East of India. The park,
> probably the best run in India,  holds around 75% of the worlds surviving
> population of the Greater One Horned Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros
> Unicornus), as well as other threatened mammals (15 in the IUCN Red List)
> like the Tiger, Wild Buffalo and Barasingha or Swamp Deer. It is also home
> to 420 different birds. It is situated on the banks of a great, untamable
> river, the Brahmaputra. The ecology is based on the river flooding most of
> the park every monsoon - the animals go to higher ground within the park -
> and so with rich river silt being renewed yearly, most of the vegetation is
> 'Elephant Grass' which can grow as high as 25 feet. With such vegetation,
> the park is home to oversized herbivores such as the Elephant, Rhino and
> Buffalo, which are massive and have no real need to hide, and so animal
> sightings are frequent and plenty, which is not always true of India's
> wildlife parks in general. The flip side is that the grass provides 
> terrific
> cover for predators, so they are extremely difficult to see. The animals 
> and
> birds are also not skittish and are tolerant of humans at close distances,
> proof again of an effectively managed sanctuary.
>
> Equipment used was the Nikon D70 with the 80-400VR, or the Nikon D40X with
> the 18-200VR (from elephant back 200mm is almost too much!)
>
> Here are some of the photographs:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand_001/kaziranga/
>
> As usual, comments and criticism welcome.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jayanand
>
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