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Subject: [Leica] Yala - Elephants
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:40:52 -0600
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Nice encounters and images, Jayanand.  Thanks for sharing.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 9:06 PM
Subject: [Leica] Yala - Elephants


> The elephants at Yala are quite extraordinary, they just burst upon you 
> from
> the surrounding vegetation, making for very close encounters, which at 
> times
> can be quite stressful - because if there is one animal in our jungles 
> whose
> behaviour I don't quite trust, it is the wild elephant. In fact the 
> closest
> encounter in this trip was when a full grown cow elephant came and stood
> right behind the jeep in a defensive posture, so that her young calves 
> could
> cross the road behind her. She was so close (about 5 feet from me, 
> adjacent
> to the vehicle) that I did not dare take photographs for fear it might 
> spook
> her!
>
> Anyway the final set of photographs from Yala are of elephants:
>
> Emerging from the vegetation:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Yala/_JGJ0951-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Startled youngster:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Yala/_JGJ0958-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Mother and (very young) child:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Yala/_JGJ1019-Edit.jpg.html
>
> A wary eye:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Yala/_JGJ1270-Edit.jpg.html
>
> C&C always welcome
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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