[Leica] Bandhavgarh - Kalua

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Luis & Nathan,
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> What a magnificent animal. My favourites are the first, relaxing one, and
> "eye contact".
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> Nathan
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> On Apr 8, 2010, at 5:06 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>
> > The second installment from Bandhavgarh focuses on one of the dominant
> males
> > of the tourist area called Kalua (Blackface). He got his name because he
> had
> > more black face markings than the rest of his litter. These are basically
> > from two encounters that we had with him.
> >
> > The first time, he was relaxed when we came across him early one morning:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100322_0610.jpg.html
> >
> > In Bandhavgarh (as in Kanha or Pench), it is possible to hire an
> elephant,
> > and track tigers inside the forest. You get very close to animals, as
> they
> > do not get spooked by an elephant - the only downsides being the top down
> > angle for photography, the discomfort of sitting on elephant back for
> long
> > periods and the expense! Most professional photographers, however, choose
> > this method, and I have made up my mind to try this for a day when I am
> next
> > in Bandhavgarh. An elephant arrived, and Kalua was forced to move:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100321_0614.jpg.html
> >
> > The elephant continued to follow him, till he disappeared over a steep
> slope
> > to the right of the photograph, where the elephant could not follow:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100321_0619.jpg.html
> >
> >
> >
> > The second time was when we caught him in perfect light going on a
> walkabout
> > on the slope of a hill opposite where we were parked:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100322_0472.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100322_0476.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100322_0492.jpg.html
> >
> > There were two elephants with photographers on his tail at this point, a
> > scene which Howard caught very well:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Final+Tigers/2Els_TigW.jpg.html
> >
> > He then decided to rest for a while:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100322_0535a.jpg.html
> >
> > He then got up, gave the massed tourists on the opposite slope a pitying
> > look and disappeared up the slope of the hill:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Bandhavgarh/Bandhavgarh_20100322_0590.jpg.html
> >
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as always, welcome.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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