A parakeet-eye view
of one of the court of one of the four spectacular old India
fortresses
used as a location for filming in Sharpe's Peril. The semi-dense
jungle in the background
through my powerful telescope at dusk enabled several of the
cast and crew (who had the
time and the nerve to climb the ramparts) to get a view of sambhar
antelope and langur
monkeys visiting the water-hole below.
By comparison, filming
a scene in one of our very evocative 'natural' locations,
'The Grand Canyon'. The drop to the bottom of the gorge here
was over 100 feet
so you had to be careful where you put your feet …
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