[Leica] Yala National Park Sri Lanka

[cummer at netvigator.com (H&ECummer)]

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: