Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Jayannand for this free trip to one of the most beautiful harbours for wild lfe. What a variety! You have managed to give the feeling with (too) few photos. Congrats. Very good shots, the owl is my favourite, and the one with the buffalo head nearly full screen. Thanks again. phx Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: >I have just returned from Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, a World >Heritage Site, in the state of Assam in the North East of India. The park, >probably the best run in India, holds around 75% of the worlds surviving >population of the Greater One Horned Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros >Unicornus), as well as other threatened mammals (15 in the IUCN Red List) >like the Tiger, Wild Buffalo and Barasingha or Swamp Deer. It is also home >to 420 different birds. It is situated on the banks of a great, untamable >river, the Brahmaputra. The ecology is based on the river flooding most of >the park every monsoon - the animals go to higher ground within the park - >and so with rich river silt being renewed yearly, most of the vegetation is >'Elephant Grass' which can grow as high as 25 feet. With such vegetation, >the park is home to oversized herbivores such as the Elephant, Rhino and >Buffalo, which are massive and have no real need to hide, and so animal >sightings are frequent and plenty, which is not always true of India's >wildlife parks in general. The flip side is that the grass provides terrific >cover for predators, so they are extremely difficult to see. The animals and >birds are also not skittish and are tolerant of humans at close distances, >proof again of an effectively managed sanctuary. > >Equipment used was the Nikon D70 with the 80-400VR, or the Nikon D40X with >the 18-200VR (from elephant back 200mm is almost too much!) > >Here are some of the photographs: > >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand_001/kaziranga/ > >As usual, comments and criticism welcome. > >Cheers > >Jayanand > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >