Friday, February 26, 2010

Pashan Lake Visit

Date: 27 Feb'10

Time: 7.15 am to 8.00 am

In the following picture, there is a mixed population of grey herons and egrets. I am doubtful abt the heron at the topmost branches of the tree. Can u please id it for me? Seems to be a grey heron juveline/immature, but the black cap is not evident.



Bird List:

1. Grey heron

2. Painted Stork

3. Open billed stork

4. White necked stork

5. Little cormorants

6. Intermediate Egret

7. Little Egret

8. Pond herons

9. River Terns


10. Ruddy shelduck

11. Nakta

12. Shoveller

13. Spotbill

14. Coot


15. Sandpipers common

16. Red wattled lapwings

17. Black Drongo

18. Dabchicks

19. White Brested Kingfisher

20. Common Myna

21. Black Kite

22. House crow

23. Jungle crow

24. Black winged stilts


Animals:

1. Checkered Killback

Sunday, February 21, 2010

BIRD TRIP

Yesterday I alone went to bird trip...kind of bird race...a miniature form. the route was pune-khadakwasla-sinhgad-panshet-rajgad-baneshwar-pune.


Got to see amazing terrain and high contrast nature art! :-) It was total of 180 kms and i enjoyed the ride! I recommend that ppl shd try this! But be alone to explore nature!


Following is the bird list:

Khadakwasla Area:

1. Common Pochard

2. Spotbills

3. Coots

4. Little Egret

5. Intermediate Egret

6. Indian Robin

7. Magpie Robin

8. Dabchicks

9. Laughing Doves

10. Common Myna

11. Little Cormorants

12. Sandpipers

13. Black Drongo

14. Red Vented Bulbul

15. Pond Herons

16. Red Wattled Lapwings

17. White Breasted moorhen

18. Northern Shoveller

19. Pintails

20. Garganey



Panshet Area:

1. Pond Herons

2. Asian Koel

3. House Crow

4. Straited Swallows

5. Black Shouldered Kite

6. Magpie Robin

7. Indian Robin

8. Pied Bhushchat

9. Red wattled lapwing

10. Rock Pigeon

11. Purple Sunbirds

12. Great Tit

13. Green Bee Eaters

14. Long tailed shrike

15. Bay backed shrikes

16. Common Myna




Way To Rajgad and Rajgad-Baneshwar:

1. Green Bee Eaters

2. Short Toed Snake Eagle

3. Unknown Eagle

4. Creasted Serpent Eagle

5. Black Shouldered Kite

6. Indian Roller

7. Malabar Crested Lark?

8. Bay Backed Shrike

9. Common Stonechat

Two birds are unidentified will check them and correct the list.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Report Photos



Recently, I participated in a photography exhibition and got to see a variety of photos, by various photographers. The exhibition included all kind of photography, abstract, landscape, portrait, wildlife etc.

Some of the photographs were really awesome to comment on, perfect timing and freeze frame!

When you look at a picture it should amaze you either by its content or by its technical excellence. it doesn't matter whether it is edited or not!!

The only thing which I learned in this exhibition is that "it doesn't matter what camera you possess, the only thing which matters, is the perspective of the camera man, and the implementation of it which reaches to audience through his images!!"



I got to see a lot of excellent wildlife photographs. Greater Flamingos in flight, standing in the still water, spotbill mother with chicks, purple sky landscapes, and lot of portraits! These are not so different kind of compositions. These are common, people look at them as if they are reporting something, I mean...see, there is a flamingo, there is this spotbill etc. etc. The report photographs are essentially telling something, if whatever they are telling is uncommon/ weird, then it might make a good composition. All the above mentioned compositions are good, no doubt! But photographically, something unusual makes the news! Like the orchid which I have given here as an example, and look at the snake below, even it is a risky task to capture the hood of the cobra, the orchid composition is interesting than the cobra one, both are equally good though!! :-)
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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Faces


First Assignment
Human faces are one of those most interesting subjects to capture. Human faces represent a plethora of emotions and expressions. This might be because we understand those emotions even when we ourselves are not expressing them!

This unique quality makes human faces pictures interesting. While capturing such faces from different parts of my beautiful country, I have came to know the journey of life behind each face I have captured.

I prefer to take natural shots, without prior permission of the model! I do not use flash, as I hate it; or more precisely I can not use it finely! In my opinion flash makes the shot artificial. Although in indoor conditions, u need to use flash, because of low light situation.

Second Assignment
Faces are not unique to humans. Other animals, Buildings, structures do also possess them. That's what I came to know when I started capturing faces for my second assignment. I started capturing faces of birds, animals, and big-tall structures. It was interesting to get the insight of the whole organism by just looking at its face!

Friday, January 1, 2010

Abstracts


I really don't get the meaning of abstract! It is really so abstract to define a abstract art or concept or theory or to greater extent...life!!

Well...abstract might not seems to be totally ununderstandable concept! The way people deliver it may be ununderstandable! Abstract is basically an uncommon, improbable thing which might have happened during the course of imagination! This definition is a self made definition, and may not apply to all cases of abstractness.

Most of the photographers distort their images or they take their shots in an unusual angle or in an unusual positions to get a basic abstract shot, and then manipulate the images by using different softwares to enhance the abstractness of the image. Softwares are basically used for getting abstract looking, so to say meaningless pictures!

Sometimes, these pictures possess heavenly beautiful expressions and most of the times, they represent the saddest part of art. Simple images can be made abstract...the only thing to keep in mind is why and how to make it abstract?