Tigress

One warm evening I was in Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, on an organised Tiger tour, when fortunately for me this Tigress crossed the road in front of our open Gypsy vehicle.

It was exciting to see this big cat, not once did it turn its head, but completely ignored our vehicle and its occupants.











And of course this is the answer to the question I posed earlier in "Which animal made these?"

Canon 1D Mk2 with 70 to 200 mm f2.8 zoom lens.

Chewing Gum Rocks.

Caerfai Beach, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Samsung compact camera.

Dropping down from the clifftop path into the secluded Caerfai beach, the sight
of these pink/red rocks spilling onto the sand had me reaching for the camera.

A passing American tourist, also impressed by the sight, joined me and coined the phrase.

Copyright: Kevin Smith

Which Way India

Jungle Babblers, NE India.

Canon 20D + 100-400mm lens. Hand Held.

A group of these "7 sisters" were rooting about in the undergrowth, giving off their scolding
calls, before the whole group flew onto a nearby branch.

Being slow to retrieve the camera, 5 flew down leaving these two, obviously undecided, for the shot.

Copyright: Kevin Smith

Robin and Crab apple blossom

Because of all the cold miserable snowy weather we're having in the UK, I thought I'd post this bright Spring type image, I took this a couple of years ago in the back garden.

This particular tree will burst into blossom in April which isn't far away and it always looks good.



To get this photograph I erected a small hide and waited for the Robin, I was certain it was aware of my presence. I don't think you can really fool a Robin as easy as that.

Which animal made these?

These animal tracks I photographed in sand adjacent to where our vehicle stopped. Any guess to what made them?
I'm not even going to say which continent I'm on, that'll give the game away.

I'll publish photographs of the culprit in a few days.

Boys and their toys

An image showing the intrepid photographers, I'm the sleeking looking one in the centre and Smith to the left, and a couple of friends of ours to the right. Doing our best to capture some Eider ducks on film, well the light sensitive sensor actually.



The castle is Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, England.

Canon 10D with 16 mm to 35 mm f2.8 lens taken by Sheila Adshead

Barrier reef anemone fish

Staying on the theme of symbiotic relationships that I mentioned in an earlier post. Here are a couple of more images demonstrating this relationship. This time on the Great Barrier reef off Queensland, Australia.





Nikonos RS with 50 mm macro lens, SB 102 flashgun. Kodak Ektachrome scanned with Nikon Super Coolscan