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Subject: [Leica] Lion-tailed Macaque
From: cummer at netvigator.com (H&ECummer)
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 07:20:52 -0700
References: <mailman.1727.1283519453.66617.lug@leica-users.org>

> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:56:30 +0530
> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Leica] Lion-tailed Macaque
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>
> My trip to the rainforest was primarily to see the Lion-tailed  
> Macaque, a
> monkey endemic to the rainforests of the  Western Ghats mountain  
> range  in
> South India, and one of the rarest primates in the world, only an  
> estimated
> 3000 or so survive in the wild. Why it ended up being called Lion- 
> tailed
> instead of Lion-maned eludes me, because its silver gray mane is far  
> more
> spectacular than its admittedly lion like tail. Luckily we got close  
> to a
> troop, and they did not seem bothered in the least - this being the
> monsoons, the weather and light was fairly miserable, and most shots  
> are at
> ISO 800 and above:

Hi Jayanand,
Wish I could have been along!
Your usual set up?
The D300 and the 200 - 400 zoom with 1.7 Xtender on a bean bag?
However done - they are lovely pictures with eyes in focus and great  
catch lights.
Much cropping?
Cheers
Howard



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