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    Ajit Huilgol
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    The Chipko movement or Chipko Andolan (literally "to stick" in Hindi) was a socio-ecological movement which involved the hugging of trees by villagers to protect them from being felled by unscrupulous timber merchants in cahoots with the Forest Department. The landmark event in this struggle took place on March 26, 1974, when a group of female peasants in Reni village, Hemwalghati, in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, acted to prevent the cutting of trees and reclaim their traditional forest rights that were threatened by the contractor system of the state Forest Department, and inspired hundreds of such grassroot level actions, throughout India.
    This tiger, too, seems to be aware of the importance of trees and of how its own future is linked with that of forests.
    I could have cropped this more and put more emphasis on the tiger, but wanted to show the bamboo and sal forest habitat in this part of India. Further, this is only a cub, probably 11 months old, and it has more than a year before it develops adult proportions. So, I wanted to show its smaller size.
    Location: Bandhavgarh NP, Madhya Pradesh, India
    Date: April 2010
    Equip: Canon 50D, Canon 70-200 f2.8 at 155
    Specs: ISO 400, f8, 1/250s, hand-held from an open jeep

    Thank you for taking the time out to look, and for your comments/critiques.

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    Hi Ajit, good story & informative to accompany the image.

    I was going to suggest cropping a little off the top, but this may not then convey the height that Tigers can reach too, perhaps leave as is. The image does look like 'to me' that there is a certain amount of noise in it and the colour does quite look right, has the image been cropped, if so, by how much? I also would suggest you drop the f stop to give yourself a higher SS as the lens can really handle this very well.

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    Wonderful image Ajit. Im glad you never cropped this tighter as I quite like the environmental aspect including the way the Tiger blends perfectly within.

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    The posture really shows how large these wonderful cats are. Your comp works well.

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    I like the inclusion of the habitat also giving a good look at both the size and area these cats live in. TFS
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    excellent image Doc , few lucky souls gets images of tiger playing with tree
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    Santosh Tigga Saligram
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    Terrific information and analogy there, Ajit; loved the image!
    And wow, at just nine months old, this cub looks comfortably around 5 to 5.5' tall when it rears up! Thanks for sharing this perspective!

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