Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/01

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Subject: [Leica] Walrus
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 07:18:25 +1000
References: <CAH1UNJ3wSKQ8CWELranty8bAA4TQXTmq0zRkpHPP=9W_fjDVaw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jayanand, I only just got to looking at your new stuff. Seems like you
were far from home! Lots of great shots there and the walruses are
especially impressive.

Cheers,
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman



On 2 August 2012 00:13, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

> A few photographs of walrus at a haul-out at Torellneset - the beasts treat
> -5F as we would treat a day at the beach and sun themselves piled up
> together. This was a male bunch - we did not see any females and young, as
> they haul-out further west of Spitsbergen. Luckily for us, they are curious
> beasts and approached us till they were only a few metres away in the water
> - there is very little fun in photographing a pod of walrus sleeping and
> sunning themselves, piled up on a gravelly beach. The last one was taken
> when the sky was very grey, but the light kept improving thereafter:
>
> In The Environment:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Norway_20120704_1438.jpg.html
>
> Big Boy:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Norway_20120704_1409.jpg.html-
> homage to Jim Shulman (-:
>
> Baleful Look:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Norway_20120704_1412.jpg.html
>
> Curiosity:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Norway_20120704_1367.jpg.html
>
> Please see LARGE.
>
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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