B2 and Other Great Tiger Pics from India

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 Prince, at the water body 

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So Prince came and sat into the water to himself off the scorching heat of Bandipur.

While the cat was sitting in the water, we all were so excited seeing this scene and started shooting all the great pictures we could. The sound of shutters was great click, click, click, click ...... 

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 Prince, at the water body 

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 Prince, at the water body 

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 Prince, at the water body 

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 Prince, at the water body 

At this place, Prince sat for some 7-8 minutes before vanishing into the bushes again

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 Prince, cooling off at the waterbody

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 Prince, drinking water - and humans need the RO water to drink !!

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 Prince, started getting up and we thought probably it will go off into the bushes now.. but it obliged and sat again for few moments

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 Prince, the great sighting

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Yawning Prince

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After sometime Prince got up and bid adieu to us .. 

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Some of the final shots I could get ..

After about sitting there for 8-9 minutes, Prince got up and then vanished into the bushes leaving all of us wanting for more and more.. as usual :) but I guess that was it.

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And the Final shot... good bye Prince


It was almost 09:30AM and we had to vacate the jungle by that time. So we drove out of the jungle, fully satisfied or I should say happily overwhelmed with the wonderful sighting. The trip back to resort was full of stories and how we all were amazed by the sighting. It was fun and excellent moments captured through our lenses and in the end all returned happy.

Thanks to the entire staff of JLR and more importantly our driver Kiran, to cooperate with us and being patient all through our 6 safaris with him. He was a nice guy and very knowledgeable about the species in the jungle with a good sense of spotting the animals. Our naturalist, spotter "Basvanraj" was also very good and helped spotting a lot of animals and birds which we could have easily missed.

Thanks to the wonderful Prince and our luck to spot the great tiger and cooperating with us while we take all those shots !! Wonderful ! Majestic ! Charming ! and above all Thrilling experience ! Long live Indian Tigers....

Some Tips for those who would want to visit Bandipur for Tiger spotting and photography

• Stay at Jungle Lodges only if you would like to do Jeep Safari. If you stay with other resorts, you might not get a chance to visit the jungle as its primarily for JLR guests. The public safari is only in canters and you might not want to be scrambled up in the crowd
• When in a safari vehicle, please do not scream or talk loud as that might divert the animals
• Cooperate with other fellow riders while shooting as everybody wants to take good shots and blocking someone for yourself is not a good idea. Rather when done, give space to others.
• Carry at least 2 bodies, 1-Dx as that will give you good range and 2-Fx as you might have to shoot in low light conditions and that will help you
• Carry a long range telephoto lens along 400~600mm with a short range say 70~200 lens (preferably a fast lens with f/2.8 aperture)
• Carry a lot of fast speed (UHS Class 1 or Extreme Pro Class 10) memory cards with you - you don't want to miss a shot if you get a good sighting
• Carry a monopod - it might help you to stabilize your shots. A tripod may not be helpful in these tight jeeps/canters.
• Carry a rain cover as you never can predict a rain in these areas and specially during monsoon months. We got trapped in one such thunderstorm and heavy rain during our trip
• Carry a dust cover as the jungles sometimes can be really dusty
• Be prepared with your gear every time as you might get a sighting for as little as few seconds
  

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Posted 15th April 2015 by Amit Pahuja

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