Back from Kaziranga..

Went with a few friends to Kaziranga National Park in north east of India a week back. Currently busy processing some of the images from the trip. Kaziranga is a beautiful place. I was told that it rains during all months at Kazi. But we had ample sunshine during our stay at Kazi - I wish it rained just one day though. We were fortunate to meet Steve Winter, a National Geographic photographer at Kazi. I was just humbled by some of the images he made at Kazi (and else where). He has spent a few months now at Kazi. All I can say is creativity and meticulous planning at its best.

Lots of images to process. Hope to make a gallery just for Kaziranga images at my web site Nature Lyrics and get it up and running in a week or two - stay tuned !!

24th Feb 2008

I have set up the gallery. All images I have processed so far can be seen here. I will add more images to this gallery (I am not done with the processing still).

- Ganesh H Shankar.

Lost Compositions...

Macro lenses and telephoto lenses make us try as frame filling as possible. When I initially started nature photography using $30 worth point-and-shoot camera I made some nice compositions. Later I got into the frame filling game. It took years for me to get out of it. Seeing nature through mind's eye using 12mm to 600mm lenses using 50mm physical eyes has always been a challenge and will remain so for years to come I guess!

- Ganesh H Shankar (Nature Lyrics)