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Subject: [Leica] A Tiger Story
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 07:50:27 +0530
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Luis, Thanks for looking.
You are in far more danger with your 35mm lenses - I was using an
effective focal length of 550mm! A handbag to your head is far more
likely to a claw to mine! (-:
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Lluis Ripoll
<lluisripollquerol at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jayanand,
>
> I'm really fascinated with this story and these impressive pictures, 
> really great work ... but as I always says I prefer keep shooting 
> se?oritas in La Rambla even if sometime could be more dangerous
>
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
>
> El 05/05/2013, a las 15:26, Jayanand Govindaraj escribi?:
>
>> Just a tiger story as it played out in Ranthambhore last month. A lot
>> of the shots were taken at long distance, through trees, grass, twigs
>> and leaves and then cropped - and the first one has been included for
>> the story's sake. The lighting for the morning shots was also quite
>> difficult - shooting into the sun, with a water body reflecting
>> everything. Anyway, here goes, hope you enjoy the tale:
>>
>> Our first sighting was the female T22, the mother of T24:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/April2013/Ranthambhore_20130418_0719-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> Our next sighting, after a few minutes, was the male T24, the dominant
>> male of the southern end of Ranthambhore, dragging a half eaten
>> carcass through the trees, periodically stopping to eat a morsel:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/April2013/Ranthambhore_20130418_0762.jpg.html
>>
>> When he reached a clearing, it was apparent that the carcass was that
>> of a young Nilgai, a large antelope. It was also getting apparent that
>> T24 had stolen the kill from his mother T22, and they were not
>> together for mating (tigers in Ranthambhore are notoriously
>> incestuous):
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/April2013/Ranthambhore_20130418_0799.jpg.html
>>
>> It was clear that he was making for Phoota Kot, a water body close by:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/April2013/Ranthambhore_20130418_0848.jpg.html
>>
>> He dragged the carcass into the water, and entered with quite a splash:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/April2013/Ranthambhore_20130418_0857.jpg.html
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/April2013/Ranthambhore_20130418_0864.jpg.html
>>
>> He gave us a snarl or two as a general warning:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/April2013/Ranthambhore_20130418_0878.jpg.html
>>
>> He then stashed his scavenged kill in the water. Tigers do this both
>> to slow down the decomposition of the meat, and to easier defend it
>> against other tigers.:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/April2013/Ranthambhore_20130418_0887.jpg.html
>>
>> After this, his mother also came to the water, probably to try and see
>> if she could get something out of her son - no such luck - his ears
>> pinned back, hair bristling, growling, he saw her off in no time.
>> Unfortunately this encounter was half hidden from our position, and I
>> got no shots of it.
>>
>> We came back in the afternoon, and he was there, cooling off and
>> guarding the carcass. The ears and the body of the nilgai is visible,
>> floating in the water, at the top right:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/April2013/Ranthambhore_20130418_1090.jpg.html
>>
>> A last shot - the wind acted up, and a thunderstorm was imminent, and
>> he obviously smelt something!:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Ranthambhore_001/April2013/Ranthambhore_20130418_1143.jpg.html
>>
>> Please see LARGE
>>
>> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
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