[vijayols]

Nilanjan the photos are simply awesome and the write up gave a feeling of actually being with you there.

Cheers.

Vijay

[jayantvs]

Thanks for sharing the story and the wonderful pictures, Nilanjan!! Fantastic details captured in each shot, such a great artist you are with the camera

[nilanjanray]

Originally Posted by speedmiester

May the numbers increase even more. Your effort in capturing this amazing animal will also help further. Kudos to you.

Thanks. I do hope that this cute cat is safe.

Btw, a number of deaths have been reported this year, including a famous tigress from Bandhavgarh. Poaching.

Originally Posted by vinayrathore

Wow Wow Wow!!

What a jewel you have discovered. Truly majestic!!

Have long been a fan of your threads and you always manage to take us away into your mesmerizing world of the wild. I completely forget the worldly worries atleast for couple of hours every time I go through a thread of yours.

Kudos to your efforts taking all the pain while clicking these beauties and in penning these stories to that real perfection.

I am itching since long to get that dream MKII. So long that now MKIV is here. Someday for sure!

Thanks again for sharing!! A big bow!

Glad to be of service :-)

What is MkII and MkIV?

Originally Posted by Uthappa

Stunning pictures, Nilanjan! I just sat mesmerised by this post. The majesty of these wonderful animals conveyed in your captures is truly awe-inspiring. Hope to emulate these pictures in the future, more power to you, Sir!

Thanks Uthappa.

Originally Posted by majumon

Nilanjan , fantastic as always, proud to have you a fellow member. Actually the tiger was looking cute and not any way ferocious.
I really liked the shot of the tusker in masth, how far were you from him during the shot. Hats off to on your courage.
Nilgiris is also my favourite destinations and am a regular at coonoor but have not really made it to the wild side except once when I had stayed at Red hills.

Yes, I found the pale tiger to be rather cute. It's companion was a different matter, especially when it was growling and charging.

Coonoor has a lot of wildlife. Gaurs, leopards, bears. And sometimes tigers pass through the tea estates, and elephants come up. Ask the tea estate folks, they will tell you.

Originally Posted by vijayols

Nilanjan the photos are simply awesome and the write up gave a feeling of actually being with you there.

Cheers.

Vijay

Thanks Vijay

Originally Posted by jayantvs

Thanks for sharing the story and the wonderful pictures, Nilanjan!! Fantastic details captured in each shot, such a great artist you are with the camera

Thank you Jayant.

Rimlit antlers

[MotoNanu]

Hey Nilanjan, awesome stuff as always man. I found the article in Hindu stating the cute one has a sibling too

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/ene...?homepage=true

Plan a trip again and get them both posing for the team

[sgmuser]

Originally Posted by MotoNanu

Hey Nilanjan, awesome stuff as always man. I found the article in Hindu stating the cute one has a sibling too

Plan a trip again and get them both posing for the team

You have beaten me to it. I just read the Hindu article and wanted to share here. Surprised that they are 'Two Brothers'.

[aravind84]

Fantastic record for the south Niljanan. Glad your repeated efforts to Nilgiris paid off rich divends and a true nature lover always enjoys being there . Kudos and lot more to come

[nilanjanray]

Originally Posted by MotoNanu

Hey Nilanjan, awesome stuff as always man. I found the article in Hindu stating the cute one has a sibling too

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/ene...?homepage=true

Plan a trip again and get them both posing for the team

Originally Posted by sgmuser

You have beaten me to it. I just read the Hindu article and wanted to share here. Surprised that they are 'Two Brothers'.

Originally Posted by aravind84

Fantastic record for the south Niljanan. Glad your repeated efforts to Nilgiris paid off rich divends and a true nature lover always enjoys being there . Kudos and lot more to come

Thanks guys. Yes, I saw the article, wonders of nature! Actually surprised it took so long, since many people have been scouring the forests :-)

Spoke to an expert, he said that similar genetic mutation in the same litter is pretty common, so not surprising that a a sibling shares the same pale colour morph.

[vinayrathore]

Originally Posted by nilanjanray

Glad to be of service :-)

What is MkII and MkIV?

Attachment 1694055

Totally forgot you are a Nikon guy!

I meant Canon 5D Mark II

[mpksuhas]

And there is more from where it came from

Hindu reports that there is a sibling to the pale tiger -

The first ‘white’ tiger found here a few months ago has a brother who’s also white

The rare, pale-skinned ‘white’ tiger was spotted for the first time in the Nilgiris earlier this year by a wildlife photographer. It now turns out that this animal is not the only one of its kind. It has a family, and its brother is also ‘white’, though its mother and sister have normal coats.

Link


Great pics as usual Nilanjan. Also, do you frequent Sarjapur road? I saw a Fortuner on few occasions which looked liked your Bison.

[ARAY]

Another blockbuster blog there. The pictures speak for themselves and they say quality . Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Keep traveling and sharing such detailed blogs.

[nilanjanray]

Originally Posted by ARAY

Another blockbuster blog there. The pictures speak for themselves and they say quality . Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Keep traveling and sharing such detailed blogs.

Thanks ARAY

Originally Posted by mpksuhas

And there is more from where it came from

Great pics as usual Nilanjan. Also, do you frequent Sarjapur road? I saw a Fortuner on few occasions which looked liked your Bison.

Thanks. Yes, I stay in Sarjapur Road :-)

[dre@ms]

Wonderful narration (Start Stop style) and liked it a lot rather than full para/sentences.

Awesome click of the pale tiger - but at first glance was wondering what's so special for a white tiger which i have seen in Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad. But once in to your post, mesmerized. Fantastic captures on the Tusker and Gaurs. What a mammoth creature they are and we should really cherish them, rather than getting perished

[Hells Bells]

Absolutely lovely pics. It is so ironical that for a generation which has grown up seeing colour pics, the B&W holds a strange allure and beauty. Maybe it "uncomplicates" the world and allows us to focus on just the subject?

[Kartik Kumar]

Lovely post on the pale tiger Nilanjan! What an experience it must have been.

And the B&W pictures are truly eye-popping. If I may ask, what are you using for B&W conversion? Doing it in ACR/Raw converter or Photoshop or using some plugin like Nik?

[nilanjanray]

Originally Posted by dre@ms

Wonderful narration (Start Stop style) and liked it a lot rather than full para/sentences.

Awesome click of the pale tiger - but at first glance was wondering what's so special for a white tiger which i have seen in Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad. But once in to your post, mesmerized. Fantastic captures on the Tusker and Gaurs. What a mammoth creature they are and we should really cherish them, rather than getting perished

Thanks. Zoo white tigers are badly inbred, and suffer from various issues. All white tigers in captivity are descendants of a male tiger called Mohan, that was captured by the Maharaja of Rewa during the 1950s.

Bull elephants and alpha male gaurs are rather impressive creatures. The gaur is the largest bovine in the world, bigger than the American bison and the African buffalo.

Originally Posted by Hells Bells

Absolutely lovely pics. It is so ironical that for a generation which has grown up seeing colour pics, the B&W holds a strange allure and beauty. Maybe it "uncomplicates" the world and allows us to focus on just the subject?

Thank you. Not getting into the philosophical aspect of monochrome. Some folks like B&W, some don't. I have an increasing fondness for B&W processing.

Originally Posted by Kartik Kumar

Lovely post on the pale tiger Nilanjan! What an experience it must have been.

And the B&W pictures are truly eye-popping. If I may ask, what are you using for B&W conversion? Doing it in ACR/Raw converter or Photoshop or using some plugin like Nik?

Thanks. I use CNX-D or ACR for raw conversion, then Photoshop. Sometimes I use 3rd party plugins.

A couple of B&W photos that I processed a few days back.

The endangered lion-tailed macaque, shot through foliage after some careful stalking. Anamalai Tiger Reserve.


Spot-billed pelican fetching a stick for its nest