Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] Dubare
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:24:08 +0530
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Oliver,
Thanks for looking. This is the camp where the elephants stay while
they are being trained. You can also photograph routine activities
like feeding etc, and you can feed them too if you feel like it! The
actual training nowadays is for patrolling duty in the six contiguous
national parks that constitute the huge Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, and
so the camp today is run by the Karnataka Forest Department:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgiri_Biosphere_Reserve

Dubare is at the edge of this area, and practically all the training
takes place within the forest. Generally outsiders are not allowed
there - it can get genuinely dangerous. One of the national parks
within this reserve, Nagarhole, is the best place in the world that I
know to photograph large herds of wild elephant - it truly is an
elephant paradise. I was last there early in 2007 (disregard the year
in the exif data - my camera was set wrong at that time):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jayanand/sets/72157618164311612/

Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Oliver Bryk <oliverbryk at comcast.net> 
wrote:
> Jayanand,
>
> I like this picture story very much. Thank you for sharing it.
>
> Oliver
>
> PS: a theoretical question: are photographers allowed in the elephant
> training camp?
>
>
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