These are the pictures of my closest sightings. And there was no way to avoid the noise in the picture for me. The likes of Nayan Khanolkar were not even shooting still, the light was so low. But then for an amateur like me these pictures are prized possessions.
This was the shot which I dared to show to Nayan, and he replied “That is a record keeping shot.” When I protested he replied, “Don’t take it otherwise but I have seen thousands of pictures and even though I don’t intend to, I end up saying something that is not liked.” He had a reputation in the camp for putting a dampener on what you thought was a very good picture. But as he said, he meant no offense and none was taken by anyone.
My Gir National Park Trip was a part of Skoda Yeti ROWE contest.
He was only looking at a walking piece of meat..he was not going to eat it..nice…but blurry
Very good for a lazy Sunday photo, a cub lazing . Loved both.
Nice ones! the cub looks interested in the crowd of people gazing at him!
Mridula did u shake hands with the king of the jungle?? 🙂
thanks for sharing mridula. not many get to have this view for real.. 🙂
The lions love you! Just look at how relaxed they are. Fabulous pix!
I love these, Mridula. Positively grrrr-eat!
And I would definitely treasure Mr. Khanolkar’s comment if I were you 🙂
Tarun, he he. I am glad the cub was not in a mood for lunch.
Thanks Chitra.
I know Anu, I am glad they were keeping their distance 😀
Ramesh, 😀 😀 😀
Jagdeep, I agree my first sightings in 5 outings to different national parks.
Thanks Fida.
Sunita, I definitely cherish my interaction with Nayan for I got to learn a lot. And many thanks for stopping by.
I could see the light was low seen from the digital noise in the picture. But takinng the shot was important on such occasions than the technical quality of the pic. I was looking for some experience of Gir National park.
Shridharan many thanks for the comment. The complete Gir story will be coming out soon.