An Indian Wild Bore
Wild boars are common in the periphery of forests and jungles. These animals prefer to live closer to villages and agricultural lands. It used to invade cultivated lands such as sugar cane fields etc.,These wild animals are well known for their notorious behavior of damaging the crops . But I shot this image in a Daroji Sloth Bear sanctuary. Daroji is about 15 K.M from HAMPI town, which was once the capital of Vijayanagar Empire.
Daroji is a rocky terrain and very hot. The summer is simply unbearable. The rock-strewn hillocks that stretch between Daroji of Sandur taluk and Ramasagar of Hospet Taluk in Bellary district have been the abode of Indian Sloth Bears since ages. In October 1994, the government of of
Karnataka declared 5,587.30 hectares of Bilikallu reserve forest as Daroji Bear Sanctuary.I took this image on March 2007. I used canon 1Ds Mark I (11.8 MP) camera with 300mm f/4 lens mounted. ISO as 200, Shutter at 1/250 and aperture at f/8.
Nice shot Sir!! any bear shots?
samsoncj
19 Oct 09 at 10:12 pm
It looks really hot. And once more a good, almost monotone, picture.
Uma
19 Oct 09 at 10:36 pm
Thanks SAM and UMA
admin
19 Oct 09 at 10:42 pm
Superb image sir…nice clarity….
Saravanan
20 Oct 09 at 8:56 am
Nice sir…
Especially the info used with the shot makes it more interesting…
Sir, I suggest you on opening a site/blog on info about Nature, including the wildlife places/sanctuaries u visited…
Stephen/Dipankar
20 Oct 09 at 12:51 pm
Good Photo Srini!
Donna
20 Oct 09 at 5:30 pm
nice capture
lovely blog
Rreena
20 Oct 09 at 9:46 pm
very nice….had d boar been a little more closer to the rock it would have given a completely different view…as if d boar is carrying d rock…
Vivek
20 Oct 09 at 11:16 pm
Srini, I have heard about Daroji Sanctuary from others earlier but have not been there. The Wild Boar looks pretty cool – some strong light well handled there.
Ram
21 Oct 09 at 6:44 am
Great clarity of subject and object. Object always remain same but it is MAN behind the camera and his skills to capture right …..
Chandraakant Dalal
21 Oct 09 at 10:58 am
nice:-)
balaGanesan
22 Oct 09 at 3:30 pm
really a cute one.
kiran
23 Oct 09 at 5:23 pm
Great capture sir, a rare combination of object and background… well done.
Jubin Jacob
25 Oct 09 at 11:16 am