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Chhari Dhand, Kutch

31 Tuesday Mar 2009

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Chhari-Dhand is the largest natural wetland in Kachchh District (Gujarat), located near Chhari-Fulay village of Nakhtrana, Taluka. This wetland is home to thousands of migratory waterfowl. During a good monsoon year Chhari-Dhand(Dhand, a shallow lake) gets inundated with rain water that lasts through out the year and is a paradise for amateur bird watchers, wetland and wildlife experts. It provides habitat for 55 species with the abundance of around 50,000 birds. Many of these fall under the rare and threatened categories. Many raptor species, Greater flamingo , Great white pelican, Common pochards and Common coot are some of the bird species commonly found here. The Indian wolf, Jungle cat, Chinkara, Caracal are the threatened mammalian fauna that depend on this wetland.

When we visited on 16-03-2009, it was completely dry as the monsoon was below than average of the season. Still the panoramic view was breathtaking.


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Caterpillar

21 Sunday Dec 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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