July Newsletter
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Hello Travellers!
Here is the July edition of India Travel Blog newsletter, bringing you latest updates on images, travel stories and photography tours.
July 2011 Calendar. The desktop calendar of July has an image of beautiful landscapes from Ladakh. Go here to download it for your desktop.
Photo Essay – monasteries of Ladakh. The Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh have a charm of their own. The congenial monks, fluttering prayer flags, lines of stupas, young monks running around in the monastery, exuberant annual festivals and the dramatic landscapes in which they are located, are a treat to the eyes. See images of monasteries and monks of Ladakh.
Photo Essay – People of Ladakh. Innocence and cheerful shows up on every face you encounter in Ladakh. Here is an attempt to capture the beautiful faces of Ladakh.
Travelogue – Lahaul and Spiti. Read a travelogue and see photos of amazing landscapes of Lahaul and Spiti, earlier published in a Japanese magazine in English.
Travel photography article – Using Flash. Here is an article on using flash in an effective manner and about times when it could be counterproductive to use flash.
Videos. See photo slideshows on youtube – a collection of images of beautiful India and on the treasures of Ladakh.
Photography Tours
We are now doing photography Tours a wide variety of places, bringing you plenty of photography opportunities.
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.
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
Lahaul and Spiti – August 13 to 21st. One of the still unexplored and insanely beautiful stretch of the Indian Himalayas, Lahaul and Spiti is a valley of stark landscapes and high snowy peaks stretching to the sky. Gurgling rivers and crystal clear lakes dot the highlands of Lahaul, while an ancient civilization has survived for nearly thousand years and has preserved its culture against the onslaught of modernity in Spiti. The faraway valley connected only through a narrow road that traverses through mountains over 10,000 feet high, this region offers vistas and heritage that can keep a travel photographer in a click-frenzy for months together. Full details of the tour here.
Badami – August 5,6 and 7. Badami is known for its rock cut temples and a history dating back more than thousand years. Travel photographers see much more than just that. There are red sandstones glistening in the morning sun, waterfalls that come alive and tumble down the cliffs adjacent to the caves in the monsoon months, colonies of friendly people with photogenic face who are more than happy to be subjects for your camera, a rural life where you see women washing clothes in a lake next to men scrubbing a bullock’s hide, temples in leafy environs with roots of ficus trees drooping over the gopuras, brilliant landscapes of cliffs overlooking a lake,.. The list is very long. More details on our tour of Badami.
