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Subject: [Leica] Yala National Park Sri Lanka
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:26:55 +0530
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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:
>>
>
>
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