Recent Clicks - Full Mooon

Captured these during the last full moon day.

Random Clicks!!

                                           eggs??? guess?

                                      aha na...  doesn't exists for tasting!!

                                          drenched.....

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Final Piece!!

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Motherhood

                         Spotted this mother and child while trekking at Nandi Hills

Mud Tiles

I was amazed to see these tiles made of mud were arranged to form this beautiful painting like structure, which was hanging on the reception wall of a hotel in Kerala. Didn't wait much to capture it in my Camera with the due permission from the hotel folks!

Happy Holidays...!!!!

        Wish you a safe and fun filled holiday season!!!


- This pic taken in Coorg, on the way to golden temple!

Random Clicks...

Sunset at Mangalore Beach

Sunrise at Marina, Chennai.

Lord Shiva at KempFort, Bangalore

Driving through Nagarhole National Park

While coming back from Coorg, we planned to drive through this beautiful and must see forest and national park adjoining the other national parks, Bandipur and Mudumalai, as my friends and colleagues insisted to visit this and indeed its a lovely experience watching the wildlife and nature beauty so closely and colourful. 

We have started our journey from Srimangala in the morning and dedicated the half day for these ~45 kms drive in the national park on the way back to Bangalore via Mysore, lush green paddy fields sorrounded by coconut and Areca palm trees with clear sky welcomed us in the morning and all along the way.Though the road was little bumpy in some stretches, it didn't deteriorate our mood and excitement  Enormous information about this place and wildlife at Wiki

This 45 kms drive consists of beautiful narrow road with lot of curves and hollows surrounded by all sorts of trees colourful grass, surprise appearance of some beautiful birds adding to the excitement. Rain god has also boosted us with some sudden showers which turned the forest even more beautiful. Since its a wildlife sanctuary, tourists are encouraged to maintain low speeds and no honking.

This forest is in rich with different wild animals, tigers, different types of deer, leopards, wild dogs and different species of birds, but all we could see was lot of peacocks, herds of deer, grazing, crossing the roads and few wild dogs. If you have the correct equipment, you could get some beautiful shots for your life.There's a safari which starts from 3pm  in the afternoon.

We took almost 4 hours to cover this stretch with lot of breaks enjoying the nature,wild life and of course for photography with different poses and angles :)

Previous posts from the Coorg Trip:

• Flowers from Coorg
• Coorg for a trip

Flowers from Coorg

As i mentioned in my previous post on coorg, i have taken some good number of pics of these different flowers on the way to coorg.

Rose

Pulse Polio - Poster

As part of the Rangoli competition for one of the celebrations in my office today, i came across this entirely different "rangoli" describing the importance of the Pulse Polio program.

And the caption for this rangoli goes like this "Just Two drops, make Life Happier",though it was written in Kannada, but i tried to get it translated as much as i could :)

Standing Alone....

Spotted this beautilful house standing alone in the well known backwaters of Alleppey-Kumarakom,Kerala.

Butterflies....

I had to chase these guys for a considerable time in the scorching sun for these shots, recently in my village during Diwali.

Ramappa Temple

Ramappa Temple which is located in Palampeta village, Mulugu taluq of Warangal district, which is around 70 kms away from Warangal town, was built in 1213 A.D  by Racherla Rudra a general of Kakatiya Ganapati Deva, as per the available records.This temple has a uniqueness that it has been built with the floating bricks by the sculptor Ramappa.

As per Archaeological Survey of India...

one of the sculptures inside the temple, on a pillar.

The most famous Nagini scultpure

Lord Ganesha and Nandi at the temple premises

you can find more info about how to reach this place and historical facts about this temple in Wiki and Internet.

Shivana Samudra Falls

As part of our Mysore trip for a long weekend, we have covered some beautiful places including Shivanasamudra falls, since this is around 70 kms from Mysore and around 120 kms from Bangalore, definitely a good getaway spot for the weekend. Here, the river Kaveri drops off from a height of 90 metres and width of around 800+ meters to form these 2 major segmented falls.

 Here are few of my clicks of these falls:

One segment of the falls

Another segment of the falls

Complete view of the falls

Have also covered other places like Somnathpur, Ranganathittu bird sanctuary, Kaveri Sangama and Srirangapatna including Mysore in this trip, will write about them in a different dedicated posts..stay tuned!

From My Backyard...

Custard Apple and Guava from my backyard..

droplets....