Beautiful Bandipur

I'm back to Bangalore and started clicking again!! It has been quite sometime since I left this space due to winter in NH. I visited Kabini and Bandipur for 4 days and it was eventful with my first clean shot of the leopard!

Due to unseasonal rains both Kabini and Bandipur forests are lush green which is unusual for this time of the year. Though in Kabini we sighted wild dogs, we missed out on the cats by a whisker! While we're in Jeep safari, another team on boat sighted a tiger quenching his thirst at a close distance! On the last day of the safari, we heard quite a few alarm calls and waited in anticipation of the elusive cat, we weren't lucky enough!
While we're winding up Kabini after 2 days, Manoj got a call from his friend that JLR folks have sighted 5 tigers in Bandipur the previous evening. That call was a clincher. We made a quick decision to visit Bandipur for a day! And boy, that was a great decision made in hindsight. In Bandipur we saw leopard in the late evening at 6pm for over 30 minutes. Though I'd seen the glimpses of leopard, I'd not shot any frames so far yet. This visit game ample opportunities to shoot though, at low light.

testing lightbox

I'm testing lightbox to work in my blogger. I had to use the scripts from different sites to make it work. Thanks to the script owners for making it open source.

Boston Skyline

Cold temperature and rains are making me to sit at home & process my old images. Well, this one is different, it is from concrete jungle! I shot this couple of months ago. This was shot from the small park in front of MIT.

Last few leaves

The autumn is coming to an end soon. This tree is on the way to our office at Derry, NH.

Streams

On the way up to Mt Washington this particular stream offers good chances for photography. But the lighting yesterday was very dull and it was raining. So this is all that I managed to get when it stopped raining for a while.

Evening at the Basin

While returning from Mt Washington yesterday, we spent half an hour at "The Basin". I'd to pack up before it started raining and hence couldn't spend much time there. It was getting dark as well. Here are couple of long exposure shots that I managed to take.

Fall is here :)

Well, before I came to New Hampshire everyone talked about the beauty of this place. Everyone told me that the Fall colors will be great to see. Well, now I'm finding out that all those were understatements. You can't do justice to the beauty of this land in words! You just have to experience it. I've been going to Mountains pretty much every weekend, even before the first leaf turned yellow. I think this weekend is going to be the best time for someone to see.

The following are my impressions of last week.


This one is a true red carpet shot from Kancamancus Highway.

Reflection!

It's getting colder day by day and today wasn't different. It was a chilly Sunday morning and I managed to get only a single shot in today's birding. Seems all the birds have started migrating already!!

Profile Falls, New Hampshire

Last weekend we made a quick trip to Profile falls. This falls is quite away from the maddening crowd and very much concealed in NH forests. Would recommend this to anyone for a quick dip on a hot summer day!

Saturday morning at Audubon Auburn, NH

I spent an hour today morning at Audubon Centre located close to Massabesic Lake in Auburn, NH. It's lovely place for birding. In my experience evenings offer better sightings here than in mornings. I managed to shoot American Gold finch and sparrow and they let me approach them closely.