http://www.naturelyrics.com/blog Nature Photography - Making Creative Fine Art Images - Art of Seeing - Stock Photography - Ganesh H. Shankar's Views Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:56:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature requested a few images of critically endangered vultures of mine for the use in their Species of the Day project. You can read more about this awareness creation project here. Starting 1st of Jan 2010 everyday they are sharing ... http://www.naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/iucns-species-of-the-day/ My friend Vijay Mohan Raj suggested animated set of Daroji images can become a good visual to show to school kids. So I made a flash file which includes some of my recent images as well as old ones made at Daroji. The link to the new visual here - Daroji ... http://www.naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/daroji-visual-for-kids/ Couple of weeks back I made a visit to Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary in India. This time I wanted to make some different perspectives of Daroji bears. Here is a gallery of images made there which includes old images made at Daroji too. This time I tried to focus more ... http://www.naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/daroji-sloth-bear-sanctuary-india/ Made a short visit to Mydanahalli Blackbuck Sanctuary in Karnataka. Though I have not visited Africa, images made here may have a similar appearance to those made at Serengeti plains ! You may visit my New Images Gallery to see a few images made at Mydanahalli Blackbuck Sanctuary. http://www.naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/mydanahalli-blackbuck-sanctuary/ Not sure whether any of you D700 users have seen issue. Today I got my new Sandisk 16GB UDMA Card (Extreame CF 60MB/s UDMA) and used it on D700. The "frames remaining" showed my previous card's  (Sandisk 12GB Extreame 3) number (some where around 400+ frames left in that card).  ... http://www.naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/fatal-nikon-d700-firmware-bug/ Looks like we are bidding farewell to monsoon in this part of the world. Misty mornings are extending nights of butterflies. Link to a few macro images from today's effort here - Macro Photography http://www.naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/farewell-to-monsoon-welcoming-winter/ Recently a friend of mine wanted a set of images of birds for making a calendar for his organization. I went with a collection of about hundred odd images of birds. My friend showed those images to another person in their organization (looked like a person in their marketing department) ... http://www.naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/making-images-for-others/ Some time back Journal of Landscape Architecture requested me to write an article on Landscape Photography for their 8th anniversary issue. Just received the new issue with my article on landscape photography. http://www.naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/article-on-landscape-photography/ Of late I have been very busy with my office work and have not had enough time to spare for photography. It is monsoon time here in India and of late we are receiving good rains in Western Ghats region. It is the time of the year when life forms in ... http://www.naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/western-ghats-of-india-in-black-and-white/ When photographing "almost" flat surfaces quality and direction of light plays a major role in getting textures within our subjects right - more so in macro photography. See the above image and the same one below. The only different is direction of light used. For the above I used light ... http://www.naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/macro-photography-getting-textures-right/