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This is the view from top of Honnamati hill at BR hills. My favorite place on earth.
The valley that you see is about 30% of this amazing wilderness paradise called BR hills. This wildlife sanctuary is in a valley which is protected on all the sides by hills, which keeps it relatively less disturbed. I was at the right place at the right time to have captured this ray of light falling on the forest cover through the monsoon clouds.
My last two trips have been very fruitful in terms of photography. I’ve managed to upload the first set to my site. Will upload the rest when I find time again.
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Stunning Picture. WOW !!
That is one amazing photograph! Great work.
Fantastic snap. Just awesome.
Amazin pic 🙂
Amazing picture, the rays look great.. I visit your journal often and love to see the photos… keep them coming
I cannot stop looking. Can I have a larger version for a wallpaper?
Tiger Cubs dead ? Poached ? Why ? How ?
Wow .. this pic should be framed …
yes!
Yep. Planning to get some 20×30 prints of this one 🙂
The mother died of natural death. These cubs were still in her belly when she died.
Don’t have access to the big version right now. WIll upload it later in the day.
Bloody Brilliant!!! I guess luck also attribute of a good photographer.
Heh, now I know where those stunning and expensive landscape pictures come from 😉
nowadays, when I comment on your photographs, I have decided to just say, ditto, ditto, ditto…as all the “wow” words would already have been used by at least 10 people before me! Went to your site and looked at all the new photos, AND enjoyed some of the old ones too.
The monsoon is my favourite time of year, because it is greenery,plentiful water,fertilityand growth. And the last trip to Bandipur had so many sightings of mothers and babies that it seemed to me that the fertility extends to the animal kingdom too!
And then God said …
… “Let there be Light!”
I can’t seem to get tired of being wowed by the sun-slashing-through-clouds-onto-valleys-below.
Awesome !!!
I got to see a lot of gaur and elephant calf’s this season. And you are right about the season. Some of my best photographs have always been in this season.
Awesome!!! I’m waiting for the wallpaper version 😀
Nice. It has a certain Ansel Adams quality to you. You are doing to BR Hills what Adams did to Yosemite and the Sierra Nevadas.
BTW, I see from your comments among the photographs that you are using a TC with the 70-200 f/2.8 VR. How is that working out? I am getting the 18-200 VR but have not heard good reports about using TCs with them. The best bet for them seems to be 1.4x TC.
rays from heaven ?
Great pic !
Directions please 🙂
Will tell Mr M 😉
For a 2.8 lens, the 2X TC makes the cut.I still have quite a bit of issues with it. Low light it just does not work and anything under 1/100, the images are not sharp at all. But if you have good sun light, the TC works like a charm.
For your lens, I’ll surely recomment the 1.4X. The Optical quality is much much better and you lose only one stop. I’m planning to get rid of my 2X soon as soon as I get the new lens. Will mostly go in for the 1.7X which people say is quite ok.
Still a long way to go.. looong way to go 🙂
Woah
And yes, I’m waiting.
I still have your other shots (leaf,angry monsoon) as my backgrounds and I keep getting questions on them 😀
I just wanted to say that! I was in Yosemite last weekend and was amazed the way Ansel Adams has branded Yosemite to it’s full grandeur. He probabaly took tens of thousands of pictures for decades and today Yosemite flocks millions of visitors. I couldnt help think of Kalyan at that time.
Nature I think is beautiful wherever you see, its just a matter of looking through the eye and telling people what you see., BR hills should answer that in a modest way from a few years from now
But, of course. All of us can, but, aspire to Saint Adams’ stature.
> today Yosemite flocks millions of visitors
That, I see, is another defeat for nature – I hope BRT does not get to that level.
Love the monsoon clouds ones–esp. the one mainly in tones of gray, with the hills in layers and the clouds above–gorgeous!
Heh thats quite a compliment. Thanks.
But you are right on the dot about that. I know many folks who come back form Yosemite and say how thats the most beautiful place on earth.. but would have neven been to places in karnataka itself like Kudremukh / Muthodi / BR hills.
BR hills is quite a dull place to be honest 😉 (as in its not a hill station and neither it is very easy to spot animals there).
…awesome !
too good…
That ray of sunlight falling on the ground looks more heavenly that earthly:-) I suppose a filter is used to get that?
Well technically I should have used a filter, but I do not have any. So I took two photographs with one stop apart and then merged them in photoshop. (which is the same thing as using an ND filter)
tooo good 🙂
So this means you have used a tripod. How comfortable are you with them. I have used a tripod for taking some night photos or photos of some art we had and used to find adjusting them a big pain.
I never had a tripod with me. This trip, my friend ramnath was carrying one, so I used that to take this shot. I rather have the freedom of shooting them carry around the tripod for that one-off use.
But with the new lens, I’m planning to pick up a good one.. as I cannot always shoot with hand because of the weight of the lens.
> I rather have the freedom of shooting
Yeah I know but while using my rather light 70-300 I can feel the damn camera shake. So I have to steady myself against something, take a deep breath and shoot. But then you don’t always have something to steady against.
I would hate to carry a tripod around.
That’s why god invented VR or IS (Nikon calls is Vibration Reduction and Canon calls is Image stabilization). They work great when you are doing hand-held shots.
Killer price I suppose?
I would also like the bigger version. I don’t leave comments on most of your photos because I have nothing more to say than “stunning” or “wow”. But while your other photos are quite excellent, I have to say that for me, this is the best. There is a sense of the sublime in this more than any of the other portrait shots of creatures, or even other imagery – its as though this photo pulls it all together. I see this as the cover of your Photography book, to give meaning to the remaining photos inside – I would title the picture and your book, “God’s wonderful creatures” (If I believed in God that is.) Or “Life in all its glory” or “The fascination of our planet” or something like that. This makes it all very global / universal and captures the emotions of all your other photos into the universal human experience of life.
All you need is a motivational poster line underneath it. Or how about some Jesus related Christian saying ?
Just kidding…
A good thought. I have to agree.
> BR hills is quite a dull place
And in that may lie its salvation. Let’s hope.
well yeah.. about 10 – 20% more then the actual price of the usual lens
B.R.Hills
Biligirirangana Betta or Biligiriranga Hills? or if you would rather have a mix of Kannada and English Biligirirangana Hills:-)
Hmm Agreed, But Yosemite is so Big that a lonesome backpacker, hiker or a rock climber would still have *a lot of isolated place* to camp around. Im not saying that BR hills should have millions of visitors too but today no one, even inside or outside of Karnataka knows much about BR Hills. Tourism and appreciation for nature is far left behind in India … ironically
Serioulsly, My first impressions was “Is that all?” Although I must have seen like 2% of Yosemite. I think its the photographer who makes the impressions and brands the place. For intance I went to BR hills once but I couldnt see anything remotely close to what you see in your pictures because others dont spend as much time as you.
Talking about toursim and natural beauty in India I almost feel like crying when I see and read about Ladakh and Kashmir valleys. (Im looking fwd for a 4 week expedition this yr). Its probably one of the most beautiful places on earth but how many of us or in the world are aware of it? NatGeo takes a documentary on Kerela and its in the top 10 list. People in the business and admirers of the wild should spread the word and make a difference; I think this is the right time, when everybody is busy raking money and making business, people look for solace and go outside of India when we have so much to offer.