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Subject: [Leica] Ndutu 2014
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:16:19 +0530
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Luis,
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Lluis Ripoll
<lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
> 4 Masterpieces! especially the first and second ones!
>
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
> El 23/03/2014, a las 15:59, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
> escribi?:
>
>> Well, we had a great time and a very enjoyable trip to Ndutu this
>> year, not least due to the couples gelling perfectly with each other.
>> In fact, the owners of Ndutu lodge used to come to our group regularly
>> and remark that they had never seen anybody enjoy themselves like we
>> were doing, and the secret of our laughing all the time! A part of the
>> reason could be the varied duty free lubrication that was on hand, but
>> I would like to think that the Cummers, Firkins, Thomases and
>> Govindarajs just liked each others company a lot!
>>
>> This place is fast turning out to be a sort of spiritual home for me,
>> the Serengeti ecosystem is where I seem to be most relaxed and
>> mentally at ease nowadays. I would like to start with a quartet of
>> Fuji XE1 images, with the 18-55mm lens, which I had taken in lieu of a
>> Nikon normal range zoom. Serengeti, in Swahili, means "Endless Plain",
>> and you can see why here:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2014/untitled-20140316-307.jpg.html
>>
>> Neela liked this tree a lot, so we stopped the vehicle and
>> photographed it (Alastair, Helen and myself). I thought the tree was
>> something you would find in Tolkien's Middle Earth, and tried to give
>> it that flavour in post processing:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2014/untitled-20140315-280.jpg.html
>>
>> The last two are views of the Ngorongoro Highlands from Olduvai Gorge.
>> Olduvai Gorge is the place where the first steps to understanding Homo
>> Sapiens' evolutionary history was taken by Louis and Mary Leakey from
>> the 1930s onwards, and the digs and research continue to this day. I
>> had always wanted to visit this place, but had never done so, but this
>> time around we took half a day off from wildlife, and went off in
>> search of our distant ancestors. There was a storm in the air that
>> day, and the air was crystal clear, the sky full of puffy cotton
>> clouds and the colours especially brilliant in the magical African
>> sun:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2014/untitled-20140313-217.jpg.html
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2014/untitled-20140313-216.jpg.html
>>
>> Please look LARGE
>>
>> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
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