Caught Special - 30

You would have see my previous two postings of this 5 sub-part series here: first one on People,  second one on Landscape. This posting here has my best picks for the third category: Wildlife

To view the photographs better, use the view mode: Click on a picture to View it in full size and then use left / right arrow keys to browse across pictures. Press ESC to come back to this blog page.

I assure you that these are my original pictures and no post processing of images has been done at all to any of them.

Here is my Voting Request again. Evaluate all the pictures of this set, and declare your 1st CHOICE WINNER among this set of WILDLIFE pictures, BY POSTING A COMMENT HERE. In your Comment, you can refer the Number of the picture that is mentioned above each picture.

You can see that the file names of the pictures have details about the Camera used, the Location of shot, and the Date when it was taken. To see the file name you can use one of two ways: (1) while in the blog page view, move the mouse pointer on the image, and the file name can be seen on the status bar at the bottom; (2) again, while in the blog page view, right click on the image and click on Save Image As, and you can see the file name in the Save window.

Thanks you!

Caught Special - 29

You would have see my previous posting of this 5 sub-part series here. This posting has my best picks for the second category: Landscape

To view the photographs better, use the view mode: Click on a picture to View it in full size and then use left / right arrow keys to browse across pictures. Press ESC to come back to this blog page.

I assure you that these are my original pictures and no post processing of images has been done at all to any of them.

Here is my Voting Request again. Evaluate all the pictures of this set, and declare your 1st CHOICE WINNER among this set of LANDSCAPE pictures, BY POSTING A COMMENT HERE. In your Comment, you can refer the Number of the picture that is mentioned above each picture.

You can see that the file names of the pictures have details about the Camera used, the Location of shot, and the Date when it was taken. To see the file name you can use one of two ways: (1) while in the blog page view, move the mouse pointer on the image, and the file name can be seen on the status bar at the bottom; (2) again, while in the blog page view, right click on the image and click on Save Image As, and you can see the file name in the Save window.

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Caught Special - 28

For a Photography contest recently, there were 5 categories for which I shortlisted the best picks from my collection of pictures. I thought of sharing those with you here, category wise. Though you may have seen some of them in an earlier post somewhere in my blog before, many of them are new here, and I think they form a good set under each of the categories: People, Landscape, Wildlife, Flowers & Trees, Abstract.

This posting has my best picks for the first category: People

You can see that the file names of the pictures have details about the Camera used, the Location of shot, and the Date when it was taken. To see the file name you can use one of two ways: (1) while in the blog page view, move the mouse pointer on the image, and the file name can be seen on the status bar at the bottom; (2) again, while in the blog page view, right click on the image and click on Save Image As, and you can see the file name in the Save window.

To view the photographs better, use the view mode: Click on a picture to View it in full size and then use left / right arrow keys to browse across pictures. Press ESC to come back to this blog page.

I assure you that these are my original pictures and no post processing of images has been done at all to any of them.

And so... here is my VOTING REQUEST for you. Evaluate all the pictures of this set, and declare your 1st CHOICE WINNER among this set of PEOPLE pictures, BY POSTING A COMMENT HERE. In your Comment, you can refer the Number of the picture that is mentioned above each picture.

Thanks you!

Around Bangalore: 6 - Chunchi Falls

Destination: Chunchi Falls

Direction:
      * South, South-west of Bangalore, on Kanakapura Road, turn left at Kanakapura.
      * Kanakapura to Chunchi 29 KM.

Type of place: Waterfall, rocky gorge / valley.

We visited last on: 22/Oct/07, Mon.

Suitable for: A day trip.

Best seasons to visit:
      * Summer may be dry, and heavy rainy season may not be suitable.

Distances
      * 89 KM from City Railway Station.
      * 81 KM from Central Silk Board, Hosur Road.

Route maps on Google
      * From City Railway Station, Click Here.
      * From Central Silk Board, Hosur Road, Click Here.

Timings: Open only during daylight timings.

Weekly off: None.

Food
      * Kanakapura (29 KM before Chunchi) en route has some restaurants.
      * It may be better to carry food, snacks, juice and water along.
      * There is nothing available near the waterfall.

Specialties
      * The drive from Bangalore had scenic agri-farms and lakes. Now they are all almost gone.
      * The 29 KM from Kanakapura to Chunchi was nice through village roads, sighted some birds too.
      * The river travels through rocks and falls down below.
      * Long walk from the car park on the level ground to go closer.
      * You walk through some narrow path, shrubs / trees, boulders, tiny water streams, etc.
      * There are no sign boards, no proper routes, no barricades, no nothing. Keep track of your walking route.
      * Be careful and never go closer to the cliff edge.
      * Many people sit at the edge of the cliff. Very risky. Do not do it.
      * While we were there late evening, it suddenly started raining, we had to run back to the car park.
      * Rocks were skidding, we kind of lost way, there were only ~10-20 people around who disappeared too.

Travel Tips
      * It is a narrow road from Bangalore. Start say by 7 AM, and have a steady and peaceful drive.
      * There are a lot of rough rocks to go near the water fall, so watch-out when you get in.
      * We carried our food from home, ate en route.
      * Carry drinking water, and umbrella also if needed. 

Photos

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Note: This is a series where I post details and tips about some day-trip locations around Bangalore. You would note that, the date of our visit to some of these places was quite some time back, so some of the detail need not be currently valid. However, I think the major part of the information will still be useful to readers. Do check around by phone or other means about these places to know the latest details and then make your plan. Enjoy your travel. Have fun.

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