Well narrated your experience Garg ji. I was closely following your posts from this region and was wondering which one you will chose among so many beautiful photographs for the Flower pic of the year. Thanks for sharing this totally new photograph from yr collection. regards Prashant
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:52 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010 had a new surprise in the form of Valley of Flowers. I was lucky to go > with Eastern Railway Trek Team officially in August' 2010. Due to landslides > we got stuck up at a number of points enroute to Govind Ghat on two days. > But I took this as an opportunity to capture Wild Flora & Fauna enroute. > From Govindghat to Ghangharia, Valley of Flowers & Hemkund Sahib, it was a > four day trek. I enjoyed the journey like never before- capturing all the > beauty on the way in the form of landscapes, butterflies, birds & Plants. > Most of the time it was raining- but that in no way hampered my spirits. I > was lucky to have a good supporting team (who always took inspirations from > me & learnt to appreciate wild Flora & Fauna) & a porter with me, which > enabled me click the beauties even in the rainy weather (I think it was the > normal weather). I moved slowly with my tripods & one SLR body on the > shoulder & another in my neck. We started early & reached every destination > only by evening time doing a 10 to 12 hours trek. By the end of the trip I > had clicked around 5000 pictures of around 400 species. These will take more > than a year even to process & post/ identify/ upload somewhere like > Wikimedia Commons. Everything else seem mundane if you compare this trip. > This is evident that from the fact for a number of identified pictures, you > even don't find a single picture on net for that species. Sheer beauty is so > encompassing that I am unable to choose any single picture from so many > beautiful ones. However, I had attached one from The Valley of Flowers which > shows it's mountains, valleys, rivers, flora, weather conditions etc. > Despite seeing so much of beauty everywhere, one awaits a great surprise on > reaching the Vally of Flowers. > It is a sight which can hardly be recreated anywhere else in India. Thus > the choice for the Flora picture of the year 2010 from my side. > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them > for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1475 members & > 57,000 messages on 16/12/10 & with a database of around 4400 species on > 30/11/10) > >
