Photo Competition
Photo Competition Winner - May '11 by Jackie Freshfield
- Judged by
- Paul Goldstein
- Trip code
- AIW
- Countries Visited
- India
- Winner
- May 2011
Perhaps I am biased, well, with tigers of course I am but this is a superb shot. To get a tiger near water is good but to catch the exact moment it walks adjacent to this lake, its far paw inches from the ground with a dazzling but not cheesy reflection magnified by increasing circles is frankly superb. I wish I had taken this, nice work, but as I am sure the photographer knows, they are much more important than just photography and certainly, still and always worth more alive.
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