Every photography trip to some extent polishes my understanding of my own taste of what i look for in my images and this trip also added its own 2 cents. As i had mentioned in my earlier posts the strongest factor that seems to influence me is color and the overall setting in which the subject is present. I think i can safely say no longer i am interested in counting number of birds i have seen, making record shots because it is a rare bird, or the bird or animal exhibiting a behavior or going for a kill. Aesthetics seems to be the strongest factor i seem to look for in my images. This orientation showed up even more in this trip. My cycle rickshaw/bird guide went crazy in trying to understand what i was upto. He used to point to a black bittern in bushes and or a dusky eagle owl in foliage. Dedicated bird photographers who come with check list would be delighted to see the same. Instead i was constantly photographing birds like white throated kingfisher which is very commonly seen ( no need to go to bharatpur to see this :)) and of which i already have lot of images as well. Anyway after a point he gave up and used to point to anything new he sees more as a duty and used to tell "Sir, Please take a photo". To keep him happy i used to make a couple of images and move ahead :) .Additionally you would notice the photographs no longer mention the subject name. I am using the title as a means to express what i was feeling while making the image. The information around the image is more to explain the condition in which the image was made.
Here is a brahminy starling in morning light. Very common. The diffused light is because of the misty morning condition in bharatpur.
Here is an image of long tailed shrike on a perch which looks like guassian distribution. One of the beauty of travelling in cycle rickshaw is ( in fact the one i was travelling was even more customized for photographers ) the birds seem comfortable with cycle rickshaws and it is really easy to jump out and make images.
Here is a brahminy starling in morning light. Very common. The diffused light is because of the misty morning condition in bharatpur.
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| - Stopover - © Mahesh Devarajan |
Here is an image of long tailed shrike on a perch which looks like guassian distribution. One of the beauty of travelling in cycle rickshaw is ( in fact the one i was travelling was even more customized for photographers ) the birds seem comfortable with cycle rickshaws and it is really easy to jump out and make images.
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| - Guassian - © Mahesh Devarajan |
Here is an image of white throated kingfisher which is common in bharatpur. Check out the blue on the wings. Initially it was thought Iridescence was reason why the kingfisher feathers looked different at different time of the day. I have more photos where the color of blue on wings looks very different. Now it it is known this is because of Tydall effect which is same as Rayleigh scattering. The blue light has the highest frequency and the scattering is proportional to the fourth power of frequency. Very cool.
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| - Morning Blues - © Mahesh Devarajan |
A little grebe also called dabchick in its breeding plumage. It is a hide and seek situation with this bird. Just when you think you have got him framed nicely in viewfinder this guy will dive into water and pop up else where.
Bharatpur is a great place to make some creative images of painted stork. They are big birds not so restless and they perch high. So it is not required to have a high focal length lens to make good images of them. Here is a juvenile which came close.
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". This saying literally fitted our situation when we went in search of the sarus crane pair based on the direction given by the guide. While walking the isolated path noticed on one side was this patch of leveled grass glowing in evening light and a lone shrike hopping across thorny scrub vegetation that were present in sparse manner. No one was around and the evening silence was broken here and there by the shrike's call. It just seemed totally unjust to ignore the shrike in the evening setting for the promise of cranes.
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| - Simple Times - © Mahesh Devarajan |
Bharatpur is a great place to make some creative images of painted stork. They are big birds not so restless and they perch high. So it is not required to have a high focal length lens to make good images of them. Here is a juvenile which came close.
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| - Stork 'Un' Painted - © Mahesh Devarajan |
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". This saying literally fitted our situation when we went in search of the sarus crane pair based on the direction given by the guide. While walking the isolated path noticed on one side was this patch of leveled grass glowing in evening light and a lone shrike hopping across thorny scrub vegetation that were present in sparse manner. No one was around and the evening silence was broken here and there by the shrike's call. It just seemed totally unjust to ignore the shrike in the evening setting for the promise of cranes.
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| - In the Moment - © Mahesh Devarajan |
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