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
Friday, February 26, 2010
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.
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?
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