Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Luis, Thanks for looking Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 12:32?AM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Hi Jayanand, > > I?ve missed this post, another outstanding photo documentary about the > Indian magnificent Parks! > > I like very much yuour picture ?Langur? because it is a different and > amazing approach to your subjects, I like very much too the Close Up 2. > However all the set is a great work and every image is priceless! > Cheers > Lluis > > > > El 3 gen 2024, a les 4:12, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG < > lug at leica-users.org> va escriure: > > > > Douglas, > > > > Thanks for looking. > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 6:55?AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > > >> While the tiger shots are great, Jayanand, I find the composition of the > >> langur really appealing. With the backstory, your panorama is quite > >> poignant, as us Irish suffered clearances too, but under the English, > >> not our own countrymen. But, as long as the world spins, it will keep on > >> happening as we're currently seeing. > >> > >> Douglas > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On 01/01/2024 06:25, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > >>> *Wishing all members of LUG, PSM and MNS a happy, fruitful and > >> productive > >>> 2024.* > >>> > >>> Bandhavgarh is arguably the most tiger focused national park in India, > >> the > >>> guides and drivers generally have to be told, quite firmly, to stop for > >>> other flora and fauna as well. > >>> > >>> So, between tigers here is a short interlude: > >>> > >>> Gaur: > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-037-Edit.jpg.html > >>> > >>> Langur: > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-1049-Enhanced-NR.jpg.html > >>> > >>> Lesser Adjutant Stork: > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-1131-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-1155-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html > >>> > >>> In the preceding mail, I had shared photographs of a female tigress > >> called > >>> Katiba. Not very long after we lost track of her, while we were still > in > >>> Khitauli zone, the alarm calls started ringing out again, and we saw a > >>> handsome male tiger moving through the forest. Deducting that he was > >> making > >>> for a waterhole nearby, we went and took a pole position there. Sure > >>> enough, shortly afterward, he broke cover and started loping down a > slope > >>> to the water: > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-670-Edit.jpg.html > >>> > >>> Once there, he looked at the water for a few seconds: > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-686-Edit.jpg.html > >>> > >>> Then he started drinking, and continued for a long time: > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-836-Edit_001.jpg.html > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1282-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1314-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html > >>> > >>> As he finished, I took an environmental portrait: > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-905-Edit.jpg.html > >>> > >>> He then spent a few minutes cooling off in the pond: > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1471-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html > >>> > >>> After which he left the waterbody on the far side: > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1613-Edit.jpg.html > >>> > >>> Lastly, he marked a tree, and then disappeared into the thicket: > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-1643-Edit.jpg.html > >>> > >>> Finally here are two random offerings to close out the trip. The first > >> one > >>> is a fellow tourist capturing memories of Katiba: > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231209-511-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIMEXD-Edit.jpg.html > >>> > >>> Lastly, here is a seven shot panorama of a misty morning in > Bandhavgarh. > >>> These open grasslands were once villages and the cultivated lands that > >>> surrounded them - these have been relocated outside the national park > >> some > >>> time ago, but not very successfully, as there is a lot of resentment > >> still > >>> simmering among these villagers about being robbed of their hereditary > >>> lands: > >>> > >>> > >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Bgarh+Main/Bgarh23/Bandhavgarh-20231208-006-Enhanced-NR-EditCropped.jpg.html > >>> > >>> Please see LARGE. > >>> > >>> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome. > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> Jayanand > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information