Hornbills and Rainforests
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Got back last week from a shot trip to Dandali, Anshi and Ganeshgudi in north Karnataka region. I’ve uploaded bunch of pics as usual in the recent section of my website. The hornbills and lot of small rare birds were the highlight of the trip.
Hornbills are the lifeblood of the rainforests. These birds largely feed of fruits and play a dynamic role in seed dispersal of numerous trees and are critically important to the regeneration and survival of the rainforest ecosystems. These are the major seed dispersers, which carry the seeds many miles from its original location. I have many portrait shots of this bird (and so do many wildlife photographers), but this is my favorite photograph of the lot. Many people think this is a bad picture, since it’s out of focus, but for me this represents the bird, its amazing flight and its lovely habitat… all in one single frame. Normally you do not get such an open space in the rain forests. I was lucky here as I was on the kali river and this bird was flying at the edge of it. |
Frans Lanting’s Jungle! 🙂
Not having a good tele-photo lens, gets all the creativity in you 😉
This is good man, really good. Conveys the feeling of watching them flapping across the forest.
Kartik
Whew. For a moment I thought I needed new glasses.
It’s the backstory and artist’s feeling that gives a creation its worth. Great picture.
Interestingly, Hornbill is also the name of the monthly magazine published by BHNS.
Their flight is quite noisy too. Wish I could record the sound some day 🙂
What? Isn’t the elephant clear in your vision?
What bull.
even without the text…
…I would have thought that was an excellent photograph. It may sound somewhat arty-farty,but it reminds me of the brushstrokes in Picasso’s paintings…have you seen his “Sunflowers”? In this case, the feeling of movement is so well captured. I don’t think this photo needs any apologies. Will be going to your photo gallery now to see the rest. I think your background of painting has its influence on your photography. The crescent of the wings, the triangle of the tail, make a great pattern against the strokes of green. (Er…you can use this for your next art-review!)
Of course, having been to JLR in Dandeli and been amazed by the 4 varieties of hornbills we saw, I also empathize with the content of the photograph…these are such beautiful birds, and we were lucky to see two hornbills majestically gliding in to land on the bamboo thickets when we were in Kabini recently.
I would like to go to Dandeli again, and would like to know of some less expensive places to stay in…so tell me more about Ganeshgudi!
Really good one. Mast pic 🙂
Hi
Just how much does it matter when we know it could have been grt but wht we have is worth a million tion times of not having it
specie/name search?
How do you identify the name/specie of a bird/animal that you see for the first time?
Is there a good search engine/website for that ?
Some place where you can specify the characteristics such as {bird,small,rainforest,india,black and white} and see the pictures and names of all the birds that satisfy the criteria, so that you can identify the bird that you saw.
-Thejas
Re: specie/name search?
We were suppose to do something like that on http://www.wildindia.org 🙂 Maybe sometime this year
Re: even without the text…
Ganeshgudi is likely to be more expensive than JLR (if I read Ganeshgudi rightly to be the Indian Adventures resort there), else wrong number!
Kartik
What equipment for a beginner?
Hi kalyan, Its been a while since i come across your journal and its the photographs of your trip to kerala,which i first saw, that got me hooked up.I know nothing much about photography, but your photos got me interested and was wondering where to start.I read that you use nikon cameras mostly with all those lenses.And you wrote that you might be shifting to canon soon. I think many people ask you this question of what brand and stuff to buy.I was wondering if you could devote a section of your blog for photography equipment and where to start from. Thanks a lot and keep up the amazing work 🙂
In case if you have already posted about photography equipment and all, please copy paste the link:)