Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > as you get fed up of taking tight portraits of bored animals.... >From my academic knowledge of big cat biology and LuG studies of fellow felines Henri and Buddy et al I should have known that big cats mostly don't do much at all, but when I was in Africa I was really surprised by this. Big cats mostly just lie about and don't do much. It really makes getting interesting shots hard. > you either want something a bit extra like interesting behaviour, action > or environment in > the photographs. This is why this shot is really excellent. I have seen leopards very close up, but I only ever saw them mostly still or moving so fast that there was no chance whatsoever of getting a photo. This is really great. Marty