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Subject: [Leica] Bandhavgarh Part 2
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 07:32:33 +0530
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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
> >>>
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In reply to: Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] Bandhavgarh Part 2)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Bandhavgarh Part 2)
Message from lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll) ([Leica] Bandhavgarh Part 2)