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Subject: [Leica] Tadoba
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:17:20 +0530
References: <CAH1UNJ1gaujwXL7BXZdcFs7j2o+jfFrpQhavbwLcQRiUTMU6Aw@mail.gmail.com> <AF8A3DDB-B892-4C9A-9F75-1717322BA6BB@frozenlight.eu>

Nathan,
Thanks for looking

Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 10:47?AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> Beautiful as always, but the mother and child gaur image is truly
> exceptional.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
>
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>
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> > On 5 Apr 2024, at 18:28, 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:
> >
> >
> 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.
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ8-20240328-562-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240328-2281-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ8-20240328-984-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ8-20240328-1094-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> >
> 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
> >
> >
> 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
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240326-2297-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240326-286-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Tadoba/TadobaZ9-20240326-1194-Edit.jpg.html
> >
> > 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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In reply to: Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Tadoba)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Tadoba)