Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/27

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Subject: [Leica] The Light in Ndutu
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:01:25 +0530
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Gorgeous!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:52 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:
> Hi Luggers,
> As you have seen with the wonderful action photos taken by Jayanand and 
> Alastair there was lots to see and photograph in Tanzania.
> The time of day that I liked the best was the early morning - leaving the 
> lodge with Venus, the morning star, blazing overhead -
> and heading out before the sunrise. The light was remarkable at that time 
> of day and hopefully we have pictures to prove it.
>
> Here are a couple - taken on our last morning run - on the 11th day - as 
> the full moon was setting on the horizon and the sun rise glowing behind 
> our back as we faced the moon set.
>
> First with gazelles and a crane flying by:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Tanza2014/MoonsetTGazelleCrane.jpg.html>
>
> and second a jeep added to the mix:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Tanza2014/MoonsetJeepDay11.jpg.html>
>
> All my safari pictures were taken with my just acquired Fuji XT 1 (I 
> bought it in Japan one day before the official release - that is another 
> story) and the 55 - 200 zoom lens. Esther's pictures were taken with the 
> Olympus EM 1 and the Panasonic 100 - 300 zoom. Helen also had the EM 1 and 
> she and Alastair and Esther and me wrestled with the menus throughout the 
> holiday. I preferred the pictures from the Fuji but the EM 1 was faster to 
> operate. Neither system was fast enough in continuous AF to give Nikon 
> designers any worry.
>
> Please look large. C&C always welcome.
>
> Howard (in Vancouver helping babysit #1 grandson - Miss O's little brother)
>
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