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I am excited as I am drafting this newsletter this time, as I am about to embark on a lot of travel soon and also concluded a grand journey of Kerala, visiting the hills of Munnar and backwaters of Alleppey. This newsletter brings you a quick brief on recent posts and upcoming content on India Travel Blog.
We also have a large number of photography events lined up across the country and around Bangalore. Have a look at the below in the email.
June Desktop Calendar Wallpaper. This month’s calendar for your desktop is a vista of the hills of Munnar during sunrise with clouds moving up and consuming the slopes from below. Download it for your desktop here.
Photo Essay on Munnar. Also see more images from the beautiful mountains in a remote rendezvous in the hills of Munnar. The aptly named ‘Cloud Farm’ witnesses an incredible play of sun and clouds every morning as we watch from a high vantage point a carpeting of clouds hiding the earth below us.
Travel Photography – Black and White Images. This month’s travel photography article is about when and how to opt to make images in Black and White instead of Colour. Black and White imagery charms a lot of us and has an attraction unseen even in colour images. This article helps you decide when is ideal to go for Black and White and when not to.
Bandipur National Park. Read the travelogue on visiting Bandipur National Park and seeing elephants in different moods – from anxiety to anger: in company of pachyderms.
Photography Tours
Ladakh – July 24th to 31st. This is the second edition of our tour of Ladakh after the first the highly popular first tour was completely booked and we still have had many more inquiries. Be ready to be blown away by this grand tour and come back with images like you have never taken before, from the places like you have never seen before! See more details of the Mountains and Monasteries Tour of Ladakh
Rainforests of Agumbe. This is a tour to the place which gets the highest rainfall in South India, get up-close with diverse endemic species of the region and interact with researchers studying these forests. And possibly see and photograph the king of these forests, the aptly named King Cobra. The tour will be accompanied by well-known herpetologist Gowri Shankar along with our photography Expert. More details
Photography Workshops in Bangalore
Photographing Landscapes. India is a land of diverse and fascinating landscapes, varying from high mountains, green hills, arid desert lands, sea-scapes, rocky terrains and much more. This workshop help you make great landscape images next time you travel or even in your neighbourhood park. More details.
Basic Photography Workshop. This workshop helps you get a jump start on photography from ground-up. More details.
India Travel Blog Newsletter is sent approximately once a month (sometimes less frequently), summarizing the previous month’s activity and giving a glimpse of the coming month on the website. Subscribe to the newsletter by keying in your email address in the box on the top of the sidebar. Here is a copy of this month’s newsletter, dispatched today.
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Here is the May edition of India Travel Blog newsletter, bringing you a quick summary of posts in last two month, a desktop calendar for May-2011 and listing our upcoming photography tours. Also, India Travel Blog has now moved to a new server to accommodate the increasing traffic. The migration had a few minor problems and some downtime in the blog, which some of you may have noticed. You may encounter some minor errors or problems in browsing paintedstork.com in the next few days, but these are temporary and will be rectified soon. Thank you for your patience.
Desktop Calendar. Desktop calendar wallpaper for this month is a photograph of misty hills of Munnar.
McLeodGanj. Read the three-part travelogue on the beautiful hills of McLeodGanj, its Buddhist Monks and on walking aimlessly in the slopes of this small town.
Photo Essay on Hampi. See images from Hampi posted in a two part series – one on the birds of Hampi and the other on its well-known monuments.
Images. Besides the photo-essays on Hampi, I also posted several recent images including rose ringed parakeets, backwaters of Kerala, Humayun’s Tomb and a bee eater. See them all here
Travel Photography Articles. Read travel photography articles on photographing monuments and on quality of light.
Upcoming Photography Tours
Our photography tours venture is going places, with wildlife in focus this summer. Join us on any of these upcoming tours.
Bandipur National Park. We are heading to Bandipur National Park in the third week of May, to see and photography a variety of animals and birds. With an increasing population of big cats and frequent sightings of tigers and leopards, we may be among the ones to come back with great images of these majestic animals. Go here to see more details and register for the tour.
Kanha National Park. On the first week of June, we are heading to Kanha National Park, where vast grasslands play home to a variety of wildlife including tigers, barasinghas, gaurs, wild dogs, hawk eagles, peafowls and a lot more. Go here to see more details and to register for the tour.
Happy Travels!
India Travel Blog Newsletter is sent approximately once a month (sometimes less frequently), summarizing the previous month’s activity and giving a glimpse of the coming month on the website. Subscribe to the newsletter by keying in your email address in the box on the top of the sidebar. Here is a copy of this month’s newsletter, dispatched today.
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Here is the March edition of India Travel Blog Newsletter. Besides listing the stories published on the blog for last two months, I am also excited to announce new photography tours and workshops coming up in the next few months.
Photography Tours and Workshops
Photography Tour of Ladakh. Come July, I we will be leading a photography tour to Ladakh – the land of mountains, high passes and an ancient Buddhist Culture. Be ready to be awed as you wander in the mountains photographing stark yet beautiful landscapes of Ladakh. Travel with photography experts and capture the beauty of super-blue lakes, see the views from the highest motorable road in the world, watch wildlife that can be seen nowhere else in the country and witness rituals of a culture that has kept its traditions alive for almost a millennium.
Go here to see more details on the tour and to signup.
Photography Workshop in Bangalore. If you are in Bangalore area and keen to work on your photography skills, consider signing up for our photography workshop in the last weekend of March. his workshop introduces you to the technical, artistic and social aspects of photography. You will learn about the concepts of photography, what the different modes of a camera mean, how to compose a photograph so that it catches the eye, how to post-process it to reflect reality or make it artistic, and, in an increasingly connected world, how to share it online.
Go here to see more details on the workshop and to register.
Stories on India Travel Blog
March 2011 Calendar. Download March 2011 desktop calendar wallpaper, an image of beautiful landscapes of Hampi.
Winter in Ladakh. I spent three weeks in Ladakh in the months of January-February. With clear blue skies and carpets of snow on the mountains, the landscapes of Ladakh look much different from summer months. I was also fortunate to see a Snow Leopard chasing a group of Ibex during the last days of my travels in Ladakh. Also see a photo-essay on Thiksey Monastery. Keep a watch for more stories and images coming up in the next few weeks from Ladakh on the blog.
Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur. Read a travelogue and see photographs, published on Harmony Magazine, on the birds and animals in Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, from my visit to the park in November 2010. The story also has links to more posts on sighting birds and mammals in the park.
Travel Photography Articles. Read travel photography articles on photographing in low light and on photographing waterfalls.
Devarayanadurga and Madhugiri. Here is a story on a day-trip from Bangalore to the hills of Devarayanadurga and Madhugiri, published in Deccen Herald.
Stay tuned to India Travel Blog on to read more stories on Ladakh and to see images from various places in the coming weeks. Happy Travels!