Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, Thanks! After Yala, we were supposed to go to a place called Mirissa to see Blue Whales, but cyclonic weather put paid to that. I will go back in April, I think - Colombo is only a 1 hour flight from here. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:31 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > Hello Jayanand, > Happy to hear that they are still allowing you to take the 200 - 400mm > Howitzer on planes!! > From your positioning in the shots - with the fore ground foliage just out > of sight of the target you > must have had a good driver and guide - as usual. > I particularly liked "Yawn" - well captured! > Cheers > Howard (freezing in Vancouver) > >> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:24:23 +0530 >> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >> Subject: [Leica] Yala National Park, Sri Lanka >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> >> The park, on the south east coast of Sri Lanka, is arguably the best place >> I >> have visited for seeing leopards - because they are at the top of the food >> chain here, they are not very shy. They are relatively easy to see, but >> again not very easy to photograph, as the vehicles cannot get close to the >> trees they are usually draped on, due to the thick, scrubby vegetation, >> and >> a very strictly enforced policy of not straying from the designated roads. >> This park was used by LTTE guerrillas during the civil war, and has really >> reopened in practical terms only in 2009. Some shots of a couple that were >> just about close and clear enough to photograph - all the shots have been >> cropped - all taken with the Nikon D300 with the 200-400 + 1.4x TC: >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >