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Subject: [Leica] Kenyan Safari Samburu Lions
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 19:42:57 +0200
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Howard, your imagination goes beyond limits, who on earth would have  
thought of shooting a lion with the pano technique??? And it works and  
works so well!

I like Esther's lion a lot too - the decisive moment, before I take a  
nap usually ... ;-)

Keep processing and sharing please.

Amiti?s
Philippe

Le 2 oct. 11 ? 16:15, H&ECummer a ?crit :

> Hello Luggers,
> As Alastair has already posted we have been on a two week safari in  
> Kenya and are just now getting home to Hong Kong after post Safari  
> stops in London and Rome.
> Esther and I took 10,000 pictures in Kenya between us and now the  
> task to sift these down to a precious few will take some time.
> Here is a start. On the first day we flew from Wilson airport in  
> Nairobi to Samburu and in the afternoon saw our first lion. He was  
> lazy. This fellow was unusual - male but without a mane.
> Here's Esther's take:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Kenya/SamburuLionYawnw.jpg.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3j8dfkp
>
> and here is mine:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Kenya/WakingLionw.jpg.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3gj6vcg
>
> My photo is a 3 panel pano taken with the GH2 and the 100 - 300  
> stitched together with CS4
> The original is 31.7 MB and would produce a 11" X 29" print at 300  
> ppi.
>
> The equipment used by the group divided into Panasonics (Henning,  
> Tanya, Esther and me) Nikons (everyone else except Helen and her  
> trusty Olympus E3 - although sometimes she was using Alastair's  
> D7000).
>
> C&C always welcome - please look large.
>
> Cheers
>
> Howard
>
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