Curious Tiger
I shot the above picture at the Bannerghatta National Park. Though the tiger looks like a wild one, its a captive animal, which has been rescued from some circus somewhere. There’s a mad rush to see them as everyone in this country is infatuated with tigers. People come in hundreds everyday to go on the safari just to see the wild cat. Even in the wild forests, everyone wants to see the tiger and nothing else. It turns into this really distasteful circus.
The people that have the best time are the ones that are just as happy seeing birds, deer, and the web of life. Their day isn’t a failure if they don’t see a tiger. If you take that attitude, you can have a great time.
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awesome pic!!!
yes…the tiger does look rather curious!
and maybe this saturday i’ll make it to the national park too!!!
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Agreed, and agreed. I want to come too!
Awesome pic.
Agreed!
I am done by this pic, *My day will not be a failure if I do not see this tiger*, don’t have to go to the park to see him now. Thanks, Kalyan!
The tigers do look sad, especially this one.
Kallu , now there is hope that we can shoot the tiger in the “Wild” with Veerappan gone , access to Bandipur and Nagarhole might not be as restricted as it used to be. Let me know when you are going 🙂 .
Yep.. it was kinda sad to see them , but when you think about it, they are better off here then in a circus or in a zoo. And these cannot be let back into the wild either.
Btw bornfree is working on this. Check this out : http://www.bornfree.org.uk/big.cat/indiadiary001.shtml
Its yathin who was really scared about verappan. He really would not have gotten much by kidnapping me really.. his targets are film acters 😉
How about putting the EXIF of the pictures in your album….
I should move to the latest version of album which supports exif data.
Here’s the exif data for this picture :
Camera make : NIKON CORPORATION
Camera model : NIKON D70
Date/Time : 2004:10:17 11:12:12
Resolution : 2000 x 3000
Flash used : No
Focal length : 80.0mm
Exposure time: 0.0016 s (1/640)
Aperture : f/4.2
Exposure bias: 0.33
Metering Mode: matrix
Exposure : aperture priority (semi-auto)
Jpeg process : Baseline
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*evil grin*
Who do you think was to take me there?
Hey….serious deal…
I’ll make sandwiches n all….wanna come?
We’ll do this *almost-forgotten picnic*ishtyle
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Just don’t go on a sunday.. its too crowded there.. pick a weekday or even saturday might work.
….and nomore holidays for us downtrodden
:-O
Focal length : 80.0mm < - thats is real close
Exposure time: 0.0016 s (1/640) < - must have been very bright
Kewl!! great work
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wotchu doing this saturday??
= wanna come along? 🙂
Heh yeah.. the lighting was perfect and the tiger was curious about the van that we were in. Infact I shot this through a dirty glass window.. thats why you see these 2 faint stripes at the bottom of the picture.
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hehe Would love to.. let me confirm by friday. I might be going to mysore.. so don’t have any confirmed plans for the weekend yet.
Nice Shot.
This was the exact thought that occured to me when I heard the news. All of a sudden I realised it wouldnt make much of a difference for me since Im not in college anymore.
Well, I’m sure someone would have been willing to pay ur ransom
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alright
Will check this space before Saturday… 🙂
He can write a cheque to Veerappan himself! 😉
Nice userpic 🙂
everyone in this country is infatuated with tigers
heh..count me in!!;D
terrific shot!!
i’d have got way too carried away by the excitement of seeing a TIGER so up close to actually take pictures!!:P
Great job!
The people that have the best time are the ones that are just as happy seeing birds, deer, and the web of life. Their day isn’t a failure if they don’t see a tiger. If you take that attitude, you can have a great time.>
That is so true!
And the tiger looks old.
hehe I was like that too.. but when I actually went into the forests.. i played with the elephants and that was enough for me.. playing with elephans.. esp a baby one rocks.
Awesome pic.
ok, NOW i’m jealous!!X-(
Thanks 🙂
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Me neither and if Dushera is anything like Gandhi Jayanthi, almost everyone I know will be skipping town… so if you have an extra seat let me know!(ie., if I’m not going to be intruding)
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you have the auroras. what are you cribbing about ?
So near yet so far!
Northern Lights can be seen at ‘Kiruna’ in Sweden and from where I live, it is further 300 Kms, although sometimes we do get something good but the climate’s not been friendly as of now. Rest, if I post something from the internet, you ppl can do it better than me, I guess. Shall try for some first-hand though. Keep peeping!.
Excellent pic
This is really a great pic. Neat shot.
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Come along, come along!
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whoa! you coming down to Mysore , what is purpose , dusshera snaps etc etc ?
Hoping to meet you once you come down to here .
hi, sriram just pinged me to tell that you are looking for a videographer for some even or the other. is doing his first videography assignment on my play and he is a good kid with loads of new ideas and stuff.
just buzz him and ask him if he will be ready to do it for you. he is a student doing his course in digital filmmaking and has some expereince in short movie making and so on. his name is parag.
Hope this information comes to help.
chow 🙂
Cool. thanks a lot.. will get in touch with him.
look within
One doesnt have to go anywhere to find great photos.
Microscopic life is interesting enough
see http://medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/jpeg2/EM003.jpg
cool photo of three mitochondria in a cell.