Gowri - Queen of Bandipur

[Praveen Siddannavar]

She is the proud mother of 4 fully grown tigers, 3 males and one female. It is good to know that the family is doing well, all 4 cubs are now fully grown tigers except that Gowri is aging & has lost two canines. Photographed this on 3rd December 2011, the light was against me but I feel I still managed a decent shot. It has been great following her for several years now.

Camera - Canon EOS 7D, Canon f4 500mm lens
EXIF - ISO 400 Av 6.3 Tv 1/250 sec EC +0.3, full frame

[Suraj Sreedhar]

Nice eye contact & ground level shot.Sad to known that she has lost her canines.Lovely image..................
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[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice pose. Gouri has contributed a lot to today's pride of Bandipur and Nagarhole for challenging Corbett or Kanha as a viable tiger habitat. Pleased to see her.Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice pose and eye contact. well exposed.

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Roopak

[Bhargava Srivari]

Nicely exposed in difficult lighting conditions.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice image. Good eye contact. The pose is nice. I had seen the cubs in February last year, and I feel they would have grown into adolescents rather than adults. It would be great if its cubs manage to grow into adults and carve territories for themselves.

[Abhirup Dutta Gupta]

excellent.