On Apr 2, 2016, PeterN wrote
(in article ):

On 3/25/2016 4:40 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On 25 Mar 2016 09:45:47 GMT, wrote:

In , Eric Stevens
wrote:

I've told you my wife is in the foothills of the Himalayas trying to
catch up with a Snow Leopard.

She has just emailed back the following iPad images from the site:

First, a well camouflaged pussy
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...SizeRender.jpg

Second, a blurry pussy, but I hope to be able to fix that.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/IMG_0224.JPG

I thought these things were hard to catch up with but she seems to
have got somewhat close.

Yeah, so the subject is technically true, of course. But I think we can
all
agree that those photos are crap, and won't end up framed on any
mantelpiece
anytime soon. Had she had a good SLR with a goo glass, they would have
been
quite good photos, in focus and correct color saturation.

Of course, without the iPad, she would have had nothing I presume, so
it's
technically true and might serve as just a shot for personal memorabilia,
sort
of.

I agree that technically the photographs are crap but, from all
accounts, just seeing a snow leopard is rare, let alone being able to
take a photograph of it.

Some time ago I read an article in which a professional photographer
seet out to photograph a snow leopard. He had cameras and long focus
primes, tripods and all kinds of other gear, along with several
porters to carry it. After several days he got one photograph no
better than the ones my wife took.

I've just found out how my wife managed to get those shots with an
iPad. Someone had a viewing scope on a tripod and she took photographs
through that. Several people followed her example but unsurprisingly
those with DSLRs had little success.

Stop annoying some here with the facts.
Sounds as if you wife is having a neat time. I hope shae can do it for
many more years.

She enjoyed the trip, but depended on somebody else to lug appropriate
equipment which was already aimed at the subject.

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Regards,
Savageduck