Last week I spent a few days at a remote village near Karnataka-Kerala border which happens to be in foot hills of Western Ghats. Weather was just perfect. Just after monsoon rains the place was ideal for macro photography. I have seen variety of butterflies, damselflies among other beauties of our natural world. I have visited this beautiful place for a few times now (happens to be my in-laws house) and noticed a group of bats everyday crossing a small hillock about half an hour after sunset. This time I tried to make a few images of bats flying at night. It was a very challenging task and I am not very satisfied with images I made. However it was a great learning for me. May be I will have opportunities in future to use those valuable learnings.
I really enjoyed doing some macro work however. This time I consciously tried to explore different creative possibilities in macro photography. Just completed processing and uploading (about 28 images so far, a few more to go). All those images can be found in my New Images Gallery.
I am overwhelmed by you work and this will be a great inspiration for young people like me.
Regards,
Kaustubh
Comment by Kaustubh — October 11, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
Ganesh,
First of all let me tell you – you have added some of the finest macro images to your collection through this trip and this is inarguably one of the best collection from your trips in your recent past. Each and every image has a different dimension to it and showcases to the viewer a whole new world of possibility of seeing nature.
Personally the tunnel spider web is what i rank the best of the lot and i probably feel thats a winner image in your collection.
Hats off to your efforts for capturing the bats images. Having been in that place once i know how difficult it is to make satisfying image and also how frustrating it gets when things dont go your way.
Waiting for the rest of the images.
Cheers – Shivu
Comment by Shivakumar — October 11, 2008 @ 4:05 pm