Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/27

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Subject: [Leica] Masai Mara
From: csemetko at gmail.com (Craig Semetko)
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:12:02 -0700
References: <mailman.1463.1319694128.1187.lug@leica-users.org>

Jayanand,

The sunsets are all beautiful but imho the first is the best. It has the 
most sense of design, with a foreground, middle ground and background, and 
all the "dots" and beautiful tones separated by horizontal lines. Gorgeous!

cheers, 

craig


On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:42 PM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote:

>> 
>> I am back home after a week at Mumbai, and got a little more
>> processing done of some more shots from our trip to Kenya in
>> September.
>> 
>> The first one is another highlight of the trip for me - a daytime
>> sighting of the elusive Serval, a beautiful medium sized cat - I had
>> had a couple of fleeting sightings before, usually in awful light
>> after dusk, but this was the first time I could photograph the animal.
>> It was obviously hunting, and though we hoped to catch it pouncing on
>> its small prey, it was not to be. However, it sat for a portrait:
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110919_1910Maraa.jpg.html
>> 
>> The next three are dusk/sunset shots. The first one is my version of a
>> scene of which Howard and Alastair have already posted their shots:
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110920_2422Maraa.jpg.html
>> 
>> Zebra Sunset: 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110920_2464Maraa.jpg.html
>> 
>> Topi Sunset: 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2011/20110920_2475Maraa.jpg.html
>> 
>> Comments and Criticism, as ever, welcome!
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>> 
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