Photo Walk

My first time to a Photo walk. A World Wide Photo Walk and some photography after a very long time. Just couldn't wait for the day to come.

Residency Road, now known as Field Marshal Cariappa road, stretches from Mayo Hall to Bangalore Club. Starting from Mayo Hall at 8 AM in the morning, was a very different sight of Residency Road.

From Sweepers cleaning the road, people setting up their flower stores, beauticians waiting to open their beauty store to someone sitting in front of closed shops and lots in thoughts.

What I realized the number of buildings being constructed on this Road and the number of sky scrappers that have come up on this road. I passed by this road every single day for 4 months and never realized them.

Is it that time flies or we have just got too busy with ourselves?

61 Years of Independence

Wishing everyone a very Happy Independence Day!



"Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity."
- APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India

Quick Shoot - Manchanbele

Its been a while since I am back to India, but very little Photography.

A half day trip to Kokkare Bellur and that's it.

Well Manchanbele wasn't far enough and it was a boring Sunday to kill. With very little time for the sun to go down, I was off to Manchanbele with Karthik (CEO at Unplugged India)

I remember my earlier trip to Manchanbele, early morning and what a day it was. Manchanbele, a beautiful place on the outskirts of Bangalore city, about 30 kms. You can find here loads of Kites, Eagle and Brahmini Kite. Some place to capture good action; and by action I mean

Beautiful landscapes around the river and the serene atmosphere makes you feel like staying that extra minute.

A Beautiful evening at Manchanbele makes your day complete.

More snaps from Manchanbele.

Kokkare Bellur

An early morning ride to Kokkare Bellur with RTMC India was amazing. The noice of the Enfield echoed for many miles till all settled at the destination Kokkare Bellur. Kokkare Bellur (Village of Storks), a small village off the main highway between Bangalore and , is one of the few nesting sites in India of the spotbilled pelican. In addition, it is also home to hundreds of painted storks. The best time to see the pelicans is in December and January. The place is not a sanctuary, and the storks and pelicans live freely in the trees in the middle of village and are quite used to their human neighbors.

Well it turned out that I didnt visit Kokkare Bellur during the best time, however the green fileds were a beautiful sight in the village of Stoks with spotbilled pelicans flying above your head.

Children of Kokkre Bellur gave me and my camera some hard time, but it was a joy to capture their moments. Energetic, shouting, smiling, acting... :)

Thanks Adarsh for the wonder ful trip!

A mishap on the way back to Bangalore left me with a few bruises!

More pictures from kokkare Bellur