Harshad Barve
02-28-2010, 11:11 PM
Dear all ,
Part Two for this http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=56597
So we were so excited after amazing morning and were keen to see that our Gypsy was first to enter the park.
As we were about to start our safari , one guide at main gate screamed Tiger ! Tiger and to my surprise I was sighting tiger from outside of gate. Trust me more than half of crowd was searching for cover:eek::D. I quicky fired few record shots and Tigress disappeared in woods.
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/381/whybg.jpg (http://img517.imageshack.us/i/whybg.jpg/)
Pinku was excited and we were full of expectations. BTR never disappoints you and near Chakradhara grassland we sighted Living Legend B2 . He was about ot cross road. Half of his was body was mud colored and he offered few seconds for images. It was nearly a private sighting. I was feeling extermely lucky and decided to scan Andhiyari Zhiria area.
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8171/86063384.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/i/86063384.jpg/)
http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/2632/b2forweb.jpg (http://img691.imageshack.us/i/b2forweb.jpg/)
After reaching Andhiyari Jhiria , our guide started scanning grass with binocs and could not found Tiger. As we were about to leave , I asked Pinku to stop for few mins as I changed cards in camera. I was about to say lets go , Guide whispered , SIRJEE KALLU SO RAHA HAI, ( Sir , Kallu , the male tiger is sleeping ). Thanks a ton to flies and insects , Kallu used his tail and my guide was alert enough to spot the tail.
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1476/tig7.jpg (http://img85.imageshack.us/i/tig7.jpg/)
Excellent guides and drives are key persons if you want to make some decent images. People travel thousands of Km to reach NP , search for best hotels and locations but are not very keen on Drivers and guides. I think I owe all of my images to my driver
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/6318/tig9.jpg (http://img25.imageshack.us/i/tig9.jpg/)
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[URL="http://img98.imageshack.us/i/tiggu4a.jpg/"]http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1003/tiggu4a.jpg (http://img98.imageshack.us/i/tiggu4a.jpg/)
After a wait of 30-40 mins kallu decided to wake up and after that it was blast of time. Nearly 4GB burned and one of the image from this sighting won me IOTW on BPN. Kallu decided to sleep again and we decided to rush towards gate. We were running out of time and you can not exceed 20kmph limit , so I skipped all birds. We were couple of KM away from gate and B2 was there crossing road. NO light at all but made few images for fun.
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/2135/tigerfun6.jpg (http://img31.imageshack.us/i/tigerfun6.jpg/)
Can you trust , this day I made more than 500 keepers , Sometime luck smiles on you
All comments and suggations are welcome and much appreciated
Harshad
Part Two for this http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=56597
So we were so excited after amazing morning and were keen to see that our Gypsy was first to enter the park.
As we were about to start our safari , one guide at main gate screamed Tiger ! Tiger and to my surprise I was sighting tiger from outside of gate. Trust me more than half of crowd was searching for cover:eek::D. I quicky fired few record shots and Tigress disappeared in woods.
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/381/whybg.jpg (http://img517.imageshack.us/i/whybg.jpg/)
Pinku was excited and we were full of expectations. BTR never disappoints you and near Chakradhara grassland we sighted Living Legend B2 . He was about ot cross road. Half of his was body was mud colored and he offered few seconds for images. It was nearly a private sighting. I was feeling extermely lucky and decided to scan Andhiyari Zhiria area.
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8171/86063384.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/i/86063384.jpg/)
http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/2632/b2forweb.jpg (http://img691.imageshack.us/i/b2forweb.jpg/)
After reaching Andhiyari Jhiria , our guide started scanning grass with binocs and could not found Tiger. As we were about to leave , I asked Pinku to stop for few mins as I changed cards in camera. I was about to say lets go , Guide whispered , SIRJEE KALLU SO RAHA HAI, ( Sir , Kallu , the male tiger is sleeping ). Thanks a ton to flies and insects , Kallu used his tail and my guide was alert enough to spot the tail.
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1476/tig7.jpg (http://img85.imageshack.us/i/tig7.jpg/)
Excellent guides and drives are key persons if you want to make some decent images. People travel thousands of Km to reach NP , search for best hotels and locations but are not very keen on Drivers and guides. I think I owe all of my images to my driver
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/6318/tig9.jpg (http://img25.imageshack.us/i/tig9.jpg/)
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[URL="http://img98.imageshack.us/i/tiggu4a.jpg/"]http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1003/tiggu4a.jpg (http://img98.imageshack.us/i/tiggu4a.jpg/)
After a wait of 30-40 mins kallu decided to wake up and after that it was blast of time. Nearly 4GB burned and one of the image from this sighting won me IOTW on BPN. Kallu decided to sleep again and we decided to rush towards gate. We were running out of time and you can not exceed 20kmph limit , so I skipped all birds. We were couple of KM away from gate and B2 was there crossing road. NO light at all but made few images for fun.
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/2135/tigerfun6.jpg (http://img31.imageshack.us/i/tigerfun6.jpg/)
Can you trust , this day I made more than 500 keepers , Sometime luck smiles on you
All comments and suggations are welcome and much appreciated
Harshad