Hello everyone . Thank you for all your comments and suggestions to my previous post, as always much appreciated.
Here is a Tiger image from an area where it is extremely difficult to sight this Big cat. Known as the Dudhwa Tiger reserve on the border of Uttar pradesh and Nepal. It is famous for its beautiful Terai landscape and the Great one horned Indian Rhinocerous but notorious for poaching. Mr.Billy Arjan Singh successfully reintroduced the hand reared tigress known as Tara (of Siberian gene) way back in 1976 which he acquired from Twycross Zoo in the United Kingdom, and reintroduced her to the wild in the Dudhwa National Park with the permission of India's then Prime Minister. There are still some theories reg the hybrid ( Bengal and Siberian) genepool of Dudhwa Tiger's but nothing conclusive whatsoever. But the Park shot to fame in the process and was given some protection otherwise this immensely beautiful landscape , rich with flora and fauna, had been a thing of past.
This particular female was an unusually heavily built female which we came across on our first safari in this part of the forest. Pretty lucky to sight a tiger here as our remaining 12 safari's were pretty much a no show in terms of tiger sightings.
DPP 4, PSCC 2019, WB, Curves, selective colour, colour balance, NR, cloned out a vehicle in the bkg, cropped slightly from the bottom of the frame for a more pano feel.
Tiger from Dudhwa!
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