Due to heavy rains at Bandipur, there have been no sightings for past almost 2 weeks. I was told by many drives/naturalist and some close associates at Bandipur to plan visit later in August. However I was somehow keen to travel since it had been almost 3 months that I sighted a Tiger at Bandipur. Last few visits for me have been completely dominated by Leopard sightings. This time the Tiger luck was with me & I managed to break the jinx of no cat sightings at Bandipur.
We sighted this handsome & bold male on 30th July'11 @ 7:40am, the sighting lasted for about 10-15 mins but during this time the handsome posed for us, scented marked and finally crossed right in front our jeep. I shot this image at 100mm, gives you have an idea how close he was. Later in the evening we were lucky again to spot him. No matter you see a tiger so many times the excitement only increases and this time around I even messed up few images
Thanks to Pradeep of JLR, without his tracking expertise this sighting and images weren't possible.
I wish I had set a lower ISO or used f7.1 or a 8, however since the tiger was on the move and I was managing two equipments it wasn't possible to change the settings & of course excitement
Camera - Canon EOS 40D, 100-400mm lens
Av 4.5
Tv 1/800
ISO 800
Focal length 100mm
Handheld
Date & Time : 30th July'11 @ 7:40am
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