[Leica] Tadoba

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Animal and wild reserves are delightful places indeed.

On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 11:28 AM Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> I went to Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, another of the tiger-centric
> Central Indian national parks  for a quick three day trip in the third week
> of March. It was a reasonably good trip for photography, and here are some
> of the photographs that I took which I liked.
>
> The first shot is just a record shot of a special sighting, a first for me,
> a black panther, early in the morning as we entered the park. The minute he
> heard our vehicle, it disappeared into the forest, just giving me enough
> time to fire a few frames as a record. It was really far away in very dim
> light - this is a 20% crop of the full frame:
>
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240327-2096-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html
>
> The next set is of a tigress named Veera - she has two cubs, but they did
> not come out to the water.
>
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ8-20240328-562-Edit.jpg.html
>
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240328-2281-Edit.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ8-20240328-984-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html
>
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ8-20240328-1094-Edit.jpg.html
>
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ8-20240328-1205-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Next as an interlude between tiger photographs, here are some other
> creatures:
>
> Jungle Cat:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ8-20240328-1205-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Black Ibis:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240327-1500-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Crested Serpent Eagle:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240328-1321-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Next are two studies of a Gaur Bull, the biggest members of the family
> Bovidae, the wild cattle - the males can tip the scales at 1.5 tonnes (1500
> kg). I personally find them quite awe inspiring, and never neglect to
> photograph them whenever possible:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240327-2209-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit2.jpg.html
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>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240327-477-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html
>
> The last gaur photo is of a tender moment shared between a female and her
> calf:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ8-20240327-102-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html
>
> The next series is a tigress called Nayantara, and her brother, Shiva (in
> the water), fully grown young adults on the verge of splitting up and going
> their own way:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240326-1188-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240326-2297-Edit.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240326-286-Edit.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240326-1194-Edit.jpg.html
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> Lastly, an appropriate sign off for a photo set on the Central Indian
> jungles would be a photograph of the ever present Hanuman Langur, here with
> a very young child in her hands:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240329-323-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Please see LARGE, I have posted it accordingly.
>
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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