One horned Rhino n young

Gallery: WildlifePosted March 18, 2011143 views13 comments

I happened to visit Kaziranga National Park recently, incidently my photographic journey began from this park. While the forest officer was writing the permit one morning, I happened to mention him that I first visited the place in 1990. He was surprised and asked, "you must be very young then". I replied, "Yeah! I was very young then but my photography was toddler, now my photography is young." And we had a good laugh after that.

This image's from recent trip.
Canon 7D; 500mm; ISO 400; 1/400 sec. at F 6.3
Thank you so much for your kind attention n views!
Jagdeep Rajput

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by Carol Nichols on March 18, 2011 at 11:25 AM

Jagdeep, I love the affection you have captured in this image. Affection is not an emotion I normally think of when viewing images of these massive animals, so it is nice to see a photo which brings up a different feeling. Very nice!

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on March 18, 2011 at 11:33 AM

Excellent image. I like the interaction between the rhino and the directional lighting really adds to the scene. The overall composition fits very nicely with the grass, bushes, trees and placement of the rhino's. Very nice detail on the larger image, well done and well seen.

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Comment posted by Luca Mussato on March 18, 2011 at 3:54 PM

I like this interaction. you captured very well the mood, what Carol called the affection.
very well done from compositional point of view as well asfor lights and details.

Luca

Registered on November 14, 2006, 118 Posts, 855 Comments

Comment posted by Andrius Pašukonis on March 18, 2011 at 6:56 PM

That's a very emotional capture of such a great species. I like a lot.

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Comment posted by Oscar Benavides on March 18, 2011 at 7:05 PM

What a beautiful image. I love the light and the expression of their faces full of feelings.

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Comment posted by Vijay Raj on March 18, 2011 at 9:30 PM

Nice sensitive mood between the mother and calf captured. Must say one can never become an adult in photography. Lots of details in the image.

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Comment posted by Ajit Huilgol on March 19, 2011 at 2:09 AM

Lovely low angle, Jagdeep, and the 'armour plating' on the hides are shown very well.

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Comment posted by Ashley Vincent on March 19, 2011 at 4:39 AM

Very warm and pleasing image to look at Jagdeep, very well done :^)

Kind regards,

Ashley

Registered on March 1, 2011, 154 Posts, 2083 Comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on March 19, 2011 at 5:21 PM

Like the lighting, pose, detail BG and just about everything about this image. IMHO it is a great image of the Indian rhino. Thanks very much for sharing.

Registered on September 12, 2009, 2120 Posts, 6455 Comments

Comment posted by Brad Hill on March 19, 2011 at 9:19 PM

Hi Jagdeep,

What everyone else said - I really like this! If one looks closely, it does look like you had challenging lighting here but handled in very well (so much so that the image looks extremely natural and the lighting looks simply beautiful). Good job on the exposure on the capture, the processing, or both!!

One VERY tiny nit - on my monitor (and on the larger version) it looks like the skin on mom's left side is just very slightly over-sharpened. But it's really trivial and in now way interfere's with the success of the image...

Very well done - thanks for sharing this excellent image...

Brad

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Comment posted by Rick Cloran on March 20, 2011 at 11:51 AM

Wonderful shot. The bonding is excellent

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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on March 20, 2011 at 9:42 PM

Just beautiful Jagdeep. I like the protective sheltering of the young one under the chin of mom. I also like that they are not looking directly at your camera (although they might be looking at someone else.). Excellent exposure.

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Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on March 22, 2011 at 4:31 PM

excellent moment here Jagdeep...I like how these rhinos have a tank-like armour, almost like armadillos :)

nice use of side-lighting too

Registered on March 22, 2011, 385 Posts, 2068 Comments