Black Lored Tit | Munnar

A small 13cm restless beauty that refuses to sit still. Hard to get details in that white cheek without blowing off the blacks in the body.

Black Lored Tit | Munnar

Oriental White Eye | Munnar

This cutie decided to check us out while we were hanging around near our tents in munnar. Here is the wallpaper version.

Oriental White Eye | Munnar

Cirrus Cloudscapes | Munnar

En route to munnar myself and prasad saw these intriguing cloud formations with streaks of clouds in a radiating fashion. I have never seen such cloud formations before. So we made a bunch of images with different compositions. Back home did some dig up using google and wikipedia and found out some cool information about these clouds. Wikipedia has a complete classification of these cloud types. The ones we had observed were cirrus clouds and they are high altitude clouds forming at an altitude of about 6000m. At that altitude high winds blow these clouds into long streamers. Awesome. More specifically the ones we had observed was a sub variety of cirrus clouds called Cirrus Radiatus. Cirrus Radiatus exhibit these white radiating contrails that span the entire sky converging to a point in horizon.

Red Whiskered Bulbul | Munnar

Here is a common red whiskered bulbul amidst green foliage in munnar evening light. Though i had clear images made some images through foliage to leverage on the foreground and background blur and create a sandwich effect on the bird. The textured out of focus branches in the back drop ( see bigger image ) think gives an impressionist feel to the image.

Red Whiskered Bulbul | Munnar

Valparai | Top Slip | Munnar | Thattekad

Did a road trip from Valaparai to Thattekad covering top slip and munnar along the way. Here is the image set from the trip.

Tea Estates | Valparai

Myna in morning light | Topslip

Spotted owlet space | Topslip

Evening Light | Munnar

Stars Over Anaimalai Ranges | Top Slip