Agumbe… A wild experience

It finally rained in Bangalore when I was on my way to a rain forest which has received just 1/7th of its normal rainfall. As I went into the forest, Vodafone didn’t follow but leeches followed all the way where ever I went inside
May it be the tents without electricity, damn cold water to bath, snakes, frogs, spiders or all the reptiles made the whole new experience of going wild. It was good to have crazy photographers who torched and flashed all the small creatures till they go blind for nice macro shots I was just lucky to be the only one who managed without donating blood to the leeches

Our Den, the tent and sleeping bag under the rain !!

Camouflaged…. Was real tough to spot this

Only the guides can spot this…..

Love the macro shot without the macro lens

Beautiful Fungus

Change of colors

kundadri hill, the highest point

Love the orange.

This spider is ‘amazing’!!!

naadan parindey :P

I always fancied writing the lens used when I went through the pics of expert fotografers. I hope I can do that soon when I have enough lens with my new Canon EOS1100D.

As any tiger would do, with my new camera I am crouching a bit to take a big leap forward . Yes pictures I am posting now may not be as attractive as that of my Point and shoot but just trying to get my hands on . With more than 2 weeks I have just 2 photos to share, as I have been taking more of a non-bloggable pics(portraits) with the new set of lens.

coorg.. the desi scotland

Planning Vs Execution??
As the saying goes, “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.” we started our way towards coorg without any idea whatsoever about the stay or the places to visit.

We started following the auto driver blindly to the homestay, in a haunted road and a place where there was no question of a signal which eventually ended up to be a beautiful one in the middle of coffee plantations.:)

Some highlights included boating in the raft .
The tea estate was so pretty
Tea Estate Panaroma

The execution was so violent that we were still on the move roaming from place to place till an hour before catching the bus back to bangalore.

Reflectionsss

Is that jasmine?? Coffeeeee :D

“aluperagani batasari ki teliyadu gamyam…. egasi pade alalaku teliyadu theeram…. sneham chese manasuki…. teliyadu swartham…….”

Bird fotografy… wait for the SLR :D

Coffeeee everywheereeeee !!!!

silhouette’s

A too veryyyyyyyyy well planned trip decided 2hours before driving off to nandi hills, 70 odd kilometers from Bangalore reaching just a bit late for sunrise. Never mind, if you cant photograph too much light after sunrise we can stick to photographing silhouttes.

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope”

“Laurel and Hardey” :P

“Aman ki asha” :P

“Wherever you go, my network follows” :D

Olympic torch marathon!!!

Proud to make it ;-)

Exploringg Bangloree..

Count the garden by the flowers that have grown, not by the ones fallen. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll!"

A handsome game and a beautiful course but a boring one

"Flowers are the sweetest thing god ever made and forgot to put the soul"

Shadows shadows shadows, the one which can never part.

Hurray! its 1034 not out…..

Ever felt, a target or a countdown can only build pressure but cant help improve in any way? I never used to care about battery until my mobile started showing me in percentages and graphic showing it going down I feel ignoring target makes it easy to achieve. This blog has more than ten ton visits now in a month’s time. hurray!!!

Visitors from across the globe. Thanks to dPs for selecting my pic

Visitors from across the globe, thanks dPs(digital photography school)

Getting a bit retrospective, having a look at the photographic path taken so far,

Sony Ericsson K750i cybershot phone , 2MPx was the first one to get my hands on and excitedly got the K810i Cybershot 3.2MPx

college from a 3.2MPx view

Then moving ahead to YARI which had just decent lens and camera….

Remembering the footsteps taken ---5MPx

Then moved to Canon SX30IS (14MPx) and story is going onnnnnnnnnnnnnnn……………

Recently got a 8MPx phone which looks decent for now.

Thats not sensational bt shot from HTC sensation

A new addition to the family

"Gorilla"pod can stick to any branch firmly

horsley

Its been a week I hope before I clicked some photos and posted anything here.. zero photos, zero posts and zero views for the last few days on my blog. I got a feeling I am stagnating as I felt like not taking any pictures for quite sometime… But after a weekend break I took some photos on the way to HORSLEY hills, a small hill station 20kms away from Madanapalli. Its always a big pain carrying tripod in buses where its tough for you to stand either. But feel always worth the effort after looking at the pics

Missed buddies a lot on the trip, no fighting:no beating:no teasing….. bt felt “chodyaar trip pe concentrate kar “

moon taking a sneak peek

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…. cruising thruu

THE Forest Fire…

a small hamlet with a designer view :)

“i may set, bt will set beautifully”

why ru spying on me??

beauty of the magic hourss

only fire can kill a fire… bt in india i dont think any forest has fire lines.

The Firinggggggg Snake!!!

I am invincibleee

Green or brown, leaves or branches I am gonna burn everything on my way!!

A trip cant be complete without this
Check out the video:http://youtu.be/RyIEx_c68hc

The ‘magic’ of the magic hours…

Ever heard of deamons getting their powers only in the dark???
Even photographers are like those deamons with magic powers during these magic hours…
The first and the last hour of daylight are both often referred to as the “magic hour”. The “magic hour”
light makes every colour that it illuminates look brighter, more vivid and gives it a tinge that ranges from red and deep orange.
Some of the amazing twilight photos:

perfect twilight silhoutte

missed the night trek and settled wit this :P

Random Thoughts…

A good song doesn’t need chorus every time… Solo also sounds real sweet..
Many-a-times lot of things appear creative randomlyy.. Sharing a fewwww…

Inspiring India

Taken from a raft at Rishikesh which is 200kms away from New Delhi, has the longest white water rafting site and the tallest bunjee jumping site in India. Need still hands in a shaking raft.

A small kayak in the middle of the mighty "GANGES"

Nestled in the middle of the western ghats is the holy beautiful city of Pushkar. Captured in the magic hours, just before sunset is this panaroma of three pictures. If you are a foodie, this place has some of the tastiest ones for you.

The Town, The Lake and The Mountains..

This place is TRIUND, near dharamshala the home of DALAI LAMA which took 9.5kms trek and 4hrs time to make it to the top. The view of the hills, shadows of the clouds, snowy mountains made even the mule so beautiful to watch. Tried capturing the shadows by keeping the light low using lower shutter speed and finally a little of HDR processing did the trick.

Path to enlightenment. Stay Hungry, Stay foolish and be happy