Dear Garg ji I take this opportunity to say that all the shots are wonderful Thanks for sharing the landscape shot too. Dr Phadke
On 2 January 2011 12:52, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> 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 (jmga...@gmail.com) > 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) > >
