Thanks God, for another beautiful day
Posted by JV on February 5, 2009
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Greater Flamingos
Posted by JV on January 20, 2009
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Western Reef Heron
Posted by JV on January 13, 2009
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Little Cormorant
Posted by JV on January 3, 2009
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Little Cormorant
Shot taken at Shinai Lake, Dist. Kachchh, Gujarat.
Little Cormorant (Phalacrocorax niger) is a widespread resident in India. Size: 51 cm.
In the breeding season, Little Cormorants are glossy black with a few white head plumes. Non-breeding adults and juveniles are browner with a white throat patch. Sexes similar. Little Cormorant can dive to considerable depths to catch fish. After feeding it perches atop a rock or low branch to dry its feathers with the wings outstretched. Little Cormorants breed in freshwater wetlands and on coasts. Clutch size: 3-5 eggs.(Source www.birding.in/birds/Pelecaniformes/Phalacrocoracidae/lit…
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nagpurbirds.org/thumbnails.php?album=4"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Cormorant
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Large Egret
Posted by JV on January 1, 2009
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Large Egret
Shot taken at Shinai Lake, Kachchh, Gujarat, India
Large Egret :
(Plate 2- 5(14) The Book of Indian Birds, Salim Ali, 12th revised edition, BNHS)
A lanky snow white egret. Legs bare, black, bill black-and-yellow. Breeding birds develop a cluster of filmsy ornamental dorsal plumes (”aigretes”) falling over beyond the tail. Habits : Affects jheels, marshes, river etc. usually solitary
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Egret
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Season’s Greeting to everyone
Posted by JV on December 26, 2008
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Did we Indians grieve like that?
Posted by JV on December 22, 2008
Thousands of black clad Israeli Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Arieh Levish Teitelbaum, one of the Israeli victims of the Mumbai attacks, on December 2, 2008 in Jerusalem. Wailing and chanting psalms, thousands of people bid a final farewell today to the six Jews killed in last week's bloody Mumbai attacks and whose bodies were flown to Israel for burial. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images)
The abovesaid image is from from 2008, the year in photographs (part 3 of 3)
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Signature Spider (Grayscale)
Posted by JV on December 22, 2008
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Caterpillar
Posted by JV on December 21, 2008
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During one of the Sundays during last monsoon I had wandered in the backyard to find subjects to click. I had clicked many shots of one beetle and many shots of this caterpillar.
However, this shot was the best of all caterpillar shots. But this one has one problem, as you have noticed that one thin grass blade obstructed and made this image little less than perfect. So I avoided to upload anywhere.
However, after learning experience on TL, I tried PhotoFiltre to do PP work.
I used Polygon tool to select closely around the insect and inverted the selection and converted the rest of background in grayscale.
However, it took bit of time to turn grayscale at macro level near the insect. (some goof up happened here)
Further there was some overexposed parts on the insect. Again Magic Wand Tool of PhotoFiltre allowed to select those region and reduced Gamma by -2. Finally sharpened image by 1+
Here is the comparison of image-before-and-after PP work
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By the pool
Posted by JV on December 20, 2008
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